To philosophize means to make vivid.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing

When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent, penetrating idea—which ceaselessly drives us inward in all directions. The decision to do philosophy—to seek philosophy is the act of self-liberation—the thrust toward ourselves.

In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.

The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.