Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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.
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.