“Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven. ”

“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.”

“Humanity is a comic role. ”

“To philosophize means to make vivid.”

“The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal. ”

“Our life is no dream, but it should and will perhaps become one.”

“Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.”