Where are we really going? Always home.

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

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

Darwin remarks that we are less dazzled by the light at waking, if we have been dreaming of visible objects. Happy are those who have here dreamt of a higher vision! They will the sooner be able to endure the glories of the world to come.

Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more--the person is alone, like a baleful power--as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually--and in accordance with his own principle he is--misanthropic and misotheos.

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.