psychology is impatience. |  | the Messiah will come as soon as the most unbridled individualism is possible in faith -- as soon as nobody destroys this possibility and nobody tolerates that destruction, that is, when the graves open. And this is perhaps the Christian doctrine, both in the actual demonstation of the example for emulation, an individualistic example, and also in the symbolic demonstration of the resurrection of the Mediator in the individual human being. |  | martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. in this hey are at one with their antagonists. |  | all human errors are impatience, the premature breaking off of what is | methodical, an apparent fencing in of the apparent thing. |  | one of the most important quixotic acts, more obtrusive than fighting the | windmill, is: suicide. The dead Don Quixote wants to kill the dead Don Quixote; | in order to kill, however, he needs a place that is alive, and this he searches | for with his sword, both ceaselessly and in vain. Engaged in this occupation | the two dead men, inextricably interlocked and positively bouncing with life, | go somersaulting away down the ages. |  | know thyself does not mean observe thyself. Observe thyself is what the Serpent | says. It means: Make yourself the master of your actions. But you are so | already, you are the master of your actions. So that saying means: Misjudge | yourself! Destroy yourself! Which is something evil -- and only if one bends | down very far indeed does one also hear the good in it, which is: In order to | make of yourself what you are. |