In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

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.

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

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.

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.