A character is a completely fashioned will.

It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof

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

To philosophize means to make vivid.

If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.

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.

One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.