To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.

Character is a perfectly educated will.

The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

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.

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