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

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

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

Character is a perfectly educated will.

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing