By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite

All death in nature is birth, and at the moment of death appears visibly the rising of life. There is no dying principle in nature, for nature throughout is unmixed life, which, concealed behind the old, begins again and develops itself. Death as well as birth is simply in itself, in order to present itself ever more brightly and more like to itself.

The person who doubts there is an external world does not need proof: he needs a cure.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.

We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the root of all reason.

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.