From the midst of the flat plain of human reason, there arises the terrible, fire-spewing mountain of genius. - Constantin Brunner

The usual judgments are judgments of interest and they tell us less about the nature of the person judged than about the interest of the one who judges.

And so, from this day forth, we want all the more to let our thoughts revolve around and hover over Socrates and Christ at all times, openly taking pride that they are more alive for us than all those living today and that we listen to and love them as we do none of the living.

Christ, with whom the multitude could not deal other than by making him into God Himself, thus enabling itself to venerate as God him whom they had loathed as man.