A Nation Is A Detour Of Nature

Is Man Merely A Mistake Of God's? Or God Merely A Mistake Of Man?

Could Truth Perhaps Be A Woman Who Has Reasons For Not Permitting Her Reasons To Be Seen? Could Her Name Perhaps Be--to Speak Greek--baubo?... Oh, Those Greeks! They Understood How To Live: To Do That It Is Necessary To Stop Bravely At The Surface, The Fold, The Skin, To Adore The Appearance, To Believe In Forms, In Tones, In Words, In The Whole Olympus Of Appearance! Those Greeks Were Superficial--out Of Profundity!

Though The Favourites Of The Gods Die Young, They Also Live Eternally In The Company Of Gods

Whoever Knows He Is Deep Tries To Be Clear, But Whoever Wants To Seem Deep To The Crowd Tries To Be Obscure. For The Crowd Supposes That Anything It Cannot See To The Bottom Must Be Deep: It Is So Timid And Goes So Unwillingly Into The Water.

To Find Everything Profound - That Is An Inconvenient Trait. It Makes One Strain One's Eyes All The Time, And In The End One Finds More Than One Might Have Wished.