Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

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.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

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

Nature is a petrified magic city.

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

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

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

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.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.