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

The world must become romanticized, and in that way we find again its original meaning for us.

To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.

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

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

Character is perfectly educated will.

Our bodies are molded rivers.