The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Not only England but every Englishman is an island.
Where children are, there is the golden age.
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.
Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction.
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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--...
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
Character is perfectly educated will.
A God-intoxicated man.
Nature is a petrified magic city.
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
Philosophy is properly home-sickness the wish to be everywhere at home.
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.