Life Must Not Be A Novel That

Philosophy Can Bake No Bread; But She Can Procure For Us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, Then, Is More Practical, Philosophy Or Economy?

Before Abstraction Everything Is One, But One Like Chaos; After Abstraction Everything Is United Again, But This Union Is A Free Binding Of Autonomous, Self-determined Beings. Out Of A Mob A Society Has Developed, Chaos Has Been Transformed Into A Manifold World.

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.

I Was Still Blind, But Twinkling Stars Did Dance Throughout My Being's Limitless Expanse, Nothing Had Yet Drawn Close, Only At Distant Stages I Found Myself, A Mere Suggestion Sensed In Past And Future Ages.

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.