Sublime

Nietzsche: “Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker.” (That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.)

Sturm und Drang.

Goethe, avec son énergique et joyeuse injonction : “Pensez à vivre !”

Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realised, it is hardly distinguishable from phantasy and phantastery.

Oui, sans doute, je ne suis qu'un voyageur, un pèlerin sur la terre ! Etes-vous donc plus ?

One of Goethe’s maxims captures it better: “Tell me with whom you consort and I will tell you who you are.”

By nothing do men show their character more than by the things they laugh at.