Truth and reality split apart. - Karl Jaspers

We are more than all our knowledge. What we know confronts an infinitely encompassing unknown. The world is a mystery, and each of us is a mystery to himself.

Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility.

I live in a kind of tension between the will to say yes to my suffering, and my inability to utter this yes with complete sincerity.