In Cheerful Souls There Is No Wit.

A Certain Degree Of Solitude Seems Necessary To The Full Growth And Spread Of The Highest Mind; And Therefore Must A Very Extensive Intercourse With Men Stifle Many A Holy Germ, And Scare Away The Gods, Who Shun The Restless Tumult Of Noisy Companies And The Discussion Of Petty Interests.

Philosophy Can Bake No Bread; But She Can Procure For Us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, Then, Is More Practical, Philosophy Or Economy?

When One Begins To Reflect On Philosophy—then Philosophy Seems To Us To Be Everything, Like God, And Love. It Is A Mystical, Highly Potent, Penetrating Idea—which Ceaselessly Drives Us Inward In All Directions. The Decision To Do Philosophy—to Seek Philosophy Is The Act Of Self-liberation—the Thrust Toward Ourselves.

The World Must Be Romanticized. In This Way The Originary Meaning May Be Found Again.

Humanity Is A Comic Role.