We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

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.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.