Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!

At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike.

True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of splitting the united or uniting the divided; this is the eternal movement of systole and diastole of the heartbeat, the inhalation and exhalation of the world in which we live, act, and exist.

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.