Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.

It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.