Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.