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.

...all phenomena are correlated in one absolute and necessary law, from which they can all be deduced.

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

Mastery is revealed in limitation.

Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music.

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?

Nature is visible Spirit; Spirit is invisible Nature.