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

Nature is visible Spirit; Spirit is invisible Nature.

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

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

There is in every man a certain feeling that he has been what he is from all eternity, and by no means become such in time.

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

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.