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"Truthful — thus do I call him who goes into the godless desert and has broken his revering heart."

“Thus speaks all great love: it also overcomes forgiveness and pity.”

“I do not like your cold justice; and always in your judging eye I see the executioner and his cold iron.

Say, where is the justice, which is love with longing eyes?

So invent for me the love, which not only bears all punishment, but all guilt as well.

So invent for me the justice, which speaks everyone free, apart from the judge!”

“There have been a thousand goals hereto, as there have been a thousand peoples. Only the shackle of a thousand necks is still lacking, the one goal is still lacking.

Yet tell me, my brothers: if humanity is still missing a goal, is not humanity itself missing?”

“Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, stands a mighty ruler, an unknown sage - it is called the subconscious self; it dwells in your body, it is your body.

There is more reason, sanity and intelligence in your body than in your best wisdom. And who knows why your body requires precisely your best wisdom?”