We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

Character is a wish for a perfect education.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

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.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.