But every person must have the desire to push oneself to the limit!

If self-knowledge does not lead to knowing oneself before God - well, then there is something to what purely human self-observation says, namely, this self-knowledge leads to a certain emptiness that produces dizziness. Only by being before God can one totally come to oneself in the transparency of soberness. p. 106

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for co-operation with oneself.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.