The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in knowledge. It is by studying a strictly theoretical philosophy that we become most acquainted with Ideas, and only Ideas provide action with vigour and ethical meaning.

Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from the very beginning?

To achieve great things we must be self-confined...mastery is revealed in limitation.

Only he who knows God is truly moral.

Mastery is revealed in limitation.

One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to speak, which has only preserved in a formal and abstract form what mythology contains in living and concrete form.

All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create.