For a truly religious man nothing is tragic. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

People are religious to the extent that they believe themselves to be not so
much imperfect, as ill.
Any man who is half-way decent will think himself extremely imperfect,
but a religious man thinks himself wretched.

A hero looks death in the face, real death, not just the image of death. Behaving honourably in a crisis doesn't mean being able to act the part of a hero well, as in the theatre, it means being able to look death itself in the eye. For an actor may play lots of different roles, but at the end of it all he himself, the human being, is the one who has to die.

6.45 : To view the world sub specie aeterni is to view it as a whole — a limited whole.
Feeling the world as a limited whole — it is this that is mystical.