Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.

God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.

Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.