Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.

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 complete need should not exist... love, life in common with loved ones?

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

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

You are alone with everything you love.

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