“Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.”

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

You are alone with everything you love.

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.

A God-intoxicated man.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

I feel like it’s impossible to please the hardcore comic book fans, because they’ll never be happy no matter what you do.

Reading can take you places you have never been before.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole other world in books.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.