 A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it. |
| The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion. |
| He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion. |
| Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. |
| It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both. |
| Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius. |
| Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man. |
| Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude. |
| How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator. |
| Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin. |
| About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy. |
| The essential point of view of Christianity is sin. |
| It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind. |
| Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine. |
| Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center. |
| The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? |
| A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center. Topics: Family |
| In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible. |
| Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos. |
| Virtue is reason which has become energy. |
