What love and spirit give cannot be extorted. The state has always been made a hell by man's wanting to make it his heaven. The state is nothing but … - 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

Ser uno con todo, ésa es la vida de la divinidad, ése es el cielo del hombre.
Ser uno con todo lo viviente, volver, en un feliz olvido de sí mismo, al todo de la naturaleza, ésta es la cima de los pensamientos y alegrías, ésta es la sagrada cumbre de la montaña, el lugar del reposo eterno donde el mediodía pierde su calor sofocante y el trueno su voz, y el hirviente mar se asemeja a los trigales ondulantes.”

Fragmento de: Friedrich Hölderlin. “Hiperión o el eremita en Grecia”. Apple Books.

What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.