When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.

My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature.

It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated mass always tends to become unspiritual and inhuman. It is life without existence, superstition without faith. It may stamp all flat; it is disinclined to tolerate independence and greatness, but prone to constrain people to become as automatic as ants.