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„Человек — это солнце, чувства — его планеты.“

„Не только Англия, но и каждый англичанин — остров.“

„Познание мира есть познание самого себя, ибо человек — величайшая тайна, источник аналогий для Вселенной“

„Философия — тоска по родине, желание везде быть дома.“

„Человеком стать — это искусство.“

„Характер — это окончательно сформировавшаяся воля.“

„Ваша так называемая религия действует как опий: она завлекает и приглушает боли вместо того, чтобы придать силы.“

„Душа находится там, где мир внутренний соприкасается с миром внешним. Никто не сможет познать себя, если не будет собой и другим одновременно.“

„Человечество зеленеет и цветет, увядает и замирает — в одно и то же время.“

„Поэзия — это проза среди искусств.“

„Теории — это сети: ловит только тот, кто их забрасывает.“

“The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.”

“Nature too remains, so far as we have yet come, ever a frightful Machine of Death: everywhere monstrous revolution, inexplicable vortices of movement; a kingdom of Devouring, of the maddest tyranny; a baleful Immense: the few light-points disclose but a so much the more appalling Night, and terrors of all sorts must palsy every observer.”

“I shall in no time forget that moment. We felt as if we had had in our souls a clear passing glimpse into this wondrous World.”

“The spirit of Poesy is the morning light, which makes the Statue of Memnon sound.”

“Tools arm the man. One can well say that man is capable of bringing forth a world; he lacks only the necessary apparatus, the corresponding armature of his sensory tools. The beginning is there. Thus the principle of a warship lies in the idea of the shipbuilder, who is able to incorporate this thought by making himself into a gigantic machine, as it were, through a mass of men and appropriate tools and materials. Thus the idea of a moment often required monstrous organs, monstrous masses of materials, and man is therefore a potential, if not an actual creator.”

“The possibility of all philosophy … namely, that the intelligence, by affecting itself, gives itself a movement in accordance with its own law — that is, gives itself a form of activity all its own.”

“Plants are Children of the Earth; we are Children of the Æther. Our Lungs are properly our Root; we live, when we breathe; we begin our life with breathing.”

“Common Logic is the Grammar of the higher Speech, that is, of Thought; it examines merely the relations of ideas to one another, the Mechanics of Thought, the pure Physiology of ideas. Now logical ideas stand related to one another, like words without thoughts. Logic occupies itself with the mere dead Body of the Science of Thinking.”

“Someone arrived there — who lifted the veil of the goddess, at Sais.”

“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.””

“Poets and priests were one in the beginning, and they only separated in later times. But the real poet is always a priest, just as the real priest always remains a poet.”