Nature is visible Spirit; Spirit is invisible Nature.

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

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?

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.

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