- "What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture that we can reject or accept as we wish; it is rather a thing animated by the soul of the person who holds it."
- "To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last."
- "Religion consists herein, that man in his own person, with his own spiritual eye, immediately beholds and possesses God. This, however, is possible through pure independent thought alone; for only through this does man assume real personality, and this alone is the eye to which God becomes visible."
- "Pure thought is itself the divine existence; and conversely, the divine existence, in its immediate essence, is nothing else than pure thought."
- "He who is firm in will molds the world to himself."
- "A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not."
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