Where are we really going? Always home.

Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.

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

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

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.

A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests.