A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer..

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible..

To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extrao….

Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect con….

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found..

In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order..

Where are we really going? Always home..

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason..

You are alone with everything you love..

Mathematics is the Life of the Gods..

Fate and temperament are the names of a concept..

The badge of honesty is simplicity..

One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun..

The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man s….

The history of every individual man should be a Bible..

The world must become romanticized, and in that way we find again its original meaning for us..

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken..

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island..

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home..

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise..

Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the ….