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.
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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.
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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.
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests .
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
The world must become romanticized, and in that way we find again its original meaning for us.
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.
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.
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.