Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Where children are, there is the golden age.
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
Philosophy is properly home-sickness the wish to be everywhere at home.
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
Nature is a petrified magic city.