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.

Only he who knows God is truly moral.

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.

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

Nature is visible Spirit; Spirit is invisible Nature.

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