Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Our life is no dream, but it should and will perhaps become one.
The highest task of education is – to take command of one’s transcendental self – to be at once the I of its I. It is all the less to be wondered at that we lack complete insight and understanding for others. Without perfect self-understanding one will never learn to truly understand others.
We dream of travels throughout the universe: is not the universe within us? We do not know the depths of our spirit. The mysterious path leads within. In us, or nowhere, lies eternity with its worlds, the past and the future.
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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.
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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.
Where are we really going? Always home.
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.
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.