What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.

What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.

Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular and by means of examples, science embraces the whole of phenomena by means of general conceptions. So poetry seeks to make us acquainted with the Platonic Ideas through the particular and by means of examples. Philosophy aims at teaching, as a whole and in general, the inner nature of things which expresses itself in these. One sees even here that poetry bears more the character of youth, philosophy that of old age.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.