If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipita….

Humanity is a comic role..

Character is a wish for a perfect education..

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet..

The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again..

Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but o….

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

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 ….

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..

Fate and temperament are the names of a concept..

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

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

The badge of honesty is simplicity..

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

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….

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

Mathematics is the Life of the Gods..

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

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….