The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

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

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.

To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.

To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.

The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Blood will stream over Europe until the nations become aware of the frightful madness which drives them in circles. And then, struck by celestial music and made gentle, they approach their former altars all together, hear about the works of peace, and hold a great celebration of peace with fervent tears before the smoking altars.