Thereby are life and flames so often compared. I believe that my powers of mind are surely such that I would have become in a certain sense a resolver of all problems. I do not believe that I could have remained in error anywhere for long. I believe that I would have earned the name of Redeemer, because I had the nature of a Redeemer. The Devil is the man who has all but the Good, knows the whole of heaven without Truth, while all exists only through the Good.
Innocence is ignorance.
To know and remain innocent would be the highest. Connection with morality, which wants to transform all present into eternity, to take into the narrowness of consciousness all the breadth of the world. The end of the Grail motif in Parsifal , and the Siegfried motif, are such melodies. It is the act through which genius arises. There is no such thing as chance.