Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic lawof chromatics. Don't look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.