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