The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.
The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the best sense of the moral, and the doubter often the best sense of the religious.
Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it, not as inferior to it but superior - yet in such a way, please note, that it is the single individual who, after being subordinate as the single individual to the universal, now by means of the universal becomes the single individual who as the single individual is superior, that the single individual as the single individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.
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