My Own Being Can Be Judged By

What Is Meaningful Cannot In Fact Be Isolated…. We Achieve Understanding Within A Circular Movement From Particular Facts To The Whole That Includes Them And Back Again From The Whole Thus Reached To The Particular Significant Facts.

It Has Become Obligatory To Fulfil A Function Which Shall In Some Way Be Regarded As Useful To The Masses...even An Articulated Mass Always Tends To Become Unspiritual And Inhuman. It Is Life Without Existence, Superstition Without Faith. It May Stamp All Flat; It Is Disinclined To Tolerate Independence And Greatness, But Prone To Constrain People To Become As Automatic As Ants.

The Socratic Teacher Turns His Students Away From Himself And Back Onto Themselves; He Hides In Paradoxes, Makes Himself Inaccessible. The Intimate Relationship Between Student And Teacher Here Is Not One Of Submission, But Of A Contest For Truth.

With The Disintegration Of All That [nietzsche] Had Revered, Existence, To Him, Had Become A Desert In Which Only One Thing Remained, Namely That Which Had Relentlessly Forced Him Into This Path: Truthfulness That Knows No Limits And Is Not Subject To Any Condition.

What Makes Us Afraid Is Our Great Freedom In The Face Of The Emptiness That Has Still To Be Filled.