"Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home."
- Novalis
"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 despai..."
"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."
"Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us. "
"Humanity is a comic role. "
"The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal. "
"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. "
"How can a person have a sense of something if he does not have the germ of it within himself. What I am to understand must develop organically within me--and what I seem to learn is only nourishment--..."
"Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness."
"The true reader must be an extension of the author. He is the higher court that receives the case already prepared by the lower court. The feeling by means of which the author has separated out the ma..."