All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!

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.

How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination. Consciousness is the eye and ear, the sense for inner and outer meaning.

A character is a completely fashioned will.