 Character and fate are two words for the same thing. |
| Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. |
| Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. |
| Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home. |
| We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible. |
| A character is a completely fashioned will. |
| Where children are, there is the golden age. |
| We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend. |
| Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other. |
| To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it. |
| Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men. |
| Where no gods are, spectres rule. |
| Nature is a petrified magic city. |
| A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer. |
| 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. |
| Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general. |
| The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. |
| Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. |
| Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity. |
