Character is a wish for a perfect education.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

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.

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

Tools arm the man. One can well say that man is capable of bringing forth a world; he lacks only the necessary apparatus, the corresponding armature of his sensory tools. The beginning is there. Thus the principle of a warship lies in the idea of the shipbuilder, who is able to incorporate this thought by making himself into a gigantic machine, as it were, through a mass of men and appropriate tools and materials. Thus the idea of a moment often required monstrous organs, monstrous masses of materials, and man is therefore a potential, if not an actual creator.