Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests.
Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word liberty entire nations.
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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, penetrating idea—which ceaselessly drives us inward in all directions. The decision to do philosophy—to seek philosophy is the act of self-liberation—the thrust toward ourselves.
Character and fate are two words for the same thing
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 of acting against one's conviction.
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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.
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
The normal present connects the past and the future through limitation. Contiguity results, crystallization by means of solidification. There also exists, however, a spiritual present that identifies past and future through dissolution, and this mixture is the element, the atmosphere of the poet.
Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more--the person is alone, like a baleful power--as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually--and in accordance with his own principle he is--misanthropic and misotheos.
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.
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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 should be a Bible.
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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