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 despair. There is no inclination for anything any more--the person is alone, like a baleful power--as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually--and in accordance with his own principle he is--misanthropic and misotheos.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

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

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." The highest statement of cognition must be an expression of that fact which is the means and ground for all cognition, namely, the goal of the I.

Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God , Freedom , Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy ?

Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.