What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love. But in all Nature, too, it is what is nearest t… - Friedrich Hölderlin

Delay thou not to break the chosen vessel,
for else it may some baser usage serve,
What should be God’s, becoming only man’s.
‘Tis better they should die, these fortunates,
Before (to trifles, shames and weaknesses a prey)
They perish ignominiously. ‘Tis better, far,
For the free man to choose his time for death,
A loving sacrifice to the high gods

O que sempre tem feito do Estado um inferno na terra tem sido precisamente procurar o homem fazer dele o seu paraíso.

O sacred light, walking there upon us, restlessly potent in its tremendous realm, disclosing its soul to me as well, in the rays that I drink, your luck be mine! From their deeds the sons of the sun nourish themselves; they live by victory; with own spirit they rouse themselves, and their force is their mirth.