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

"Character and fate are two words for the same thing."

"Where no gods are, spectres rule."

"A character is a completely fashioned will."

"Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home."

"To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it."

"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."

"Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise."

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

"Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life."

"Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment."

"Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity."

"Where children are, there is the golden age."

"We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming."

"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."

"Nature is a petrified magic city."

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

"Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other."