Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit

When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it.

There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.

All fanaticism is repressed doubt.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.