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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
A complete need should not exist... love, life in common with loved ones?
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
The world must become romanticized, and in that way we find again its original meaning for us.
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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.
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.
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.
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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.
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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 infirmity.
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.
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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.
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 self. Through death the reduction is complete.
How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination. Consciousness is the eye and ear, the sense for inner and outer meaning.
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 found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.
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 many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!
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 precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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 extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.
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 this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.