A Believer (n.) lies constantly out upon the deep with seventy thousand fathoms of water under him; he may grow calmer, even jesting, but up to the last minute he lies above that depth.
A Believer (n.) comes to the relief of the sermon, not the other way round: the sermon only repeats itself and hovers helplessly, empty unless one man believes.
A Believer (n.) is to the world like a blind man walking about a room, blinded by the splendour of what he gains, or a deaf man in company who turns the others' talk into nonsense.
A Believer (n.) stands a head taller than the worst affliction, for the way a man walks on does not go over his head; he plants his foot on it.
Believer (n.) owe one another nothing and the god everything — between them, everything is Socratic again.