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„V živote vzdelaného človeka by sa mala striedať hudba a ticho, ako spánok a bdenie.“

„Veľa je tých, čo lepšie žijú v minulosti a v budúcnosti než v prítomnosti.“

„Každý stupeň vzdelania sa začína detstvom. Preto sa ten najvzdelanejší človek tak veľmi podobá dieťaťu.“

„Tam, kde sú deti je zlatý vek.“

„Popierať, veriť a pochybovať znamená pre človeka to, čo pre kone beh.“

„Všetko milované je stredom raja.“

„Láska je nekonečný cieľ svetových dejín, amen vesmíru.“

„Opojenie zmyslov sa má k láske ako spánok k životu.“

„Dieťa je zviditeľnená láska.“

„Láska je posledná príčina svetových dejín vesmíru.“

„Bez úplného porozumenia seba samého sa nikdy nenaučíme porozumieť druhých.“

„Muž je lyrický, žena epická, manželstvo dramatické.“

„Čítanie dobrej knihy je ustavičný dialóg, pri ktorom nás kniha oslovuje a naša duša odpovedá.“

„Umelec stojí na človeku ako socha na piedestáli.“

„Všetky udalosti nášho života sú materiálom, z ktorého môžeme postaviť, čokoľvek budeme chcieť.“

„Ak sa zmením, zmení sa svet.“

„Úplne sa nebudeme chápať nikdy. Ale budeme a môžeme oveľa viac než sa chápať.“

„Srdce básnika rozumie prírode lepšie, ako hlava učenca.“

„Trpezlivosť je dvojaká - pokojné znášanie nedostatku a pokojné znášanie blahobytu. Pravá trpezlivosť je však vždy prejavom veľkej múdrosti.“

“The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.”

“Nature too remains, so far as we have yet come, ever a frightful Machine of Death: everywhere monstrous revolution, inexplicable vortices of movement; a kingdom of Devouring, of the maddest tyranny; a baleful Immense: the few light-points disclose but a so much the more appalling Night, and terrors of all sorts must palsy every observer.”

“I shall in no time forget that moment. We felt as if we had had in our souls a clear passing glimpse into this wondrous World.”

“The spirit of Poesy is the morning light, which makes the Statue of Memnon sound.”

“Tools arm the man. One can well say that man is capable of bringing forth a world; he lacks only the necessary apparatus, the corresponding armature of his sensory tools. The beginning is there. Thus the principle of a warship lies in the idea of the shipbuilder, who is able to incorporate this thought by making himself into a gigantic machine, as it were, through a mass of men and appropriate tools and materials. Thus the idea of a moment often required monstrous organs, monstrous masses of materials, and man is therefore a potential, if not an actual creator.”

“The possibility of all philosophy … namely, that the intelligence, by affecting itself, gives itself a movement in accordance with its own law — that is, gives itself a form of activity all its own.”

“Plants are Children of the Earth; we are Children of the Æther. Our Lungs are properly our Root; we live, when we breathe; we begin our life with breathing.”

“Common Logic is the Grammar of the higher Speech, that is, of Thought; it examines merely the relations of ideas to one another, the Mechanics of Thought, the pure Physiology of ideas. Now logical ideas stand related to one another, like words without thoughts. Logic occupies itself with the mere dead Body of the Science of Thinking.”

“Someone arrived there — who lifted the veil of the goddess, at Sais.”

“Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us. ... The highest form of philosophy is ethics. Thus all philosophy begins with “I am.””

“Poets and priests were one in the beginning, and they only separated in later times. But the real poet is always a priest, just as the real priest always remains a poet.”