Occupation: Poet Birth: May 2, 1772 Death: March 25, 1801
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch..
There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to t….
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will..
Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--t….
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us..
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit..
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it..
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming..
How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination. Consciousness is the ey….
Blood will stream over Europe until the nations become aware of the frightful madness which drives them in circles. And then, struck by celestial mus….
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature..
To philosophize means to make vivid..
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy..
Our bodies are molded rivers..
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth ..
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven..
When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent, penetrati….
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything..
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infi….
A character is a completely fashioned will..
Where children are, there is the golden age..