Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. - Novalis

The fate which oppresses us is the inertia of our spirit. Through extending and cultivating our activity we shall transform ourselves into fate.

Everything seems to stream inward into us, because we do not stream outward. We are negative because we want to be — the more positive we become, the more negative will the world around us become — until at last there will be no more negation — but instead we are all in all.

God wants there to be gods.

Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.

The highest task of education is — to take command of one’s transcendental self — to be at once the I of its I. It is all the less to be wondered at that we lack complete insight and understanding for others. Without perfect self-understanding one will never learn to truly understand others.