 What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best. |
| Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original. |
| Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit. |
| Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. |
| Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher. |
| Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself. |
| Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous. |
| One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one. |
| All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity. |
| A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach. |
| From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be. |
| Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality. |
| Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation. |
| There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite. |
| If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry. Topics: Family |
| Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated. |
| He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her. |
| A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song. |
| Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical. |
| God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals? |
