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….

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?.

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

The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be man….

Tools arm the man. One can well say that man is capable of bringing forth a world; he lacks only the necessary apparatus, the corresponding armature ….

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….

I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being's limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages I fo….

The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains….

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist..

Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic..

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us..

Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self..

Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomou….

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child..

Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy ….

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe..

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life..

Character is perfectly educated will..

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend..

Character is a wish for a perfect education..