We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do—we do it all the time.

The essence of modernity is psychologism, the experiencing and interpretation of the world in terms of the reactions of our inner life and indeed as an inner world, the dissolution of fixed contents in the fluid element of the soul, from which all that is substantive is filtered and whose forms are merely forms of motion.

I am following nature without being able to grasp her.