 One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. |
| Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science. |
| Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. |
| The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages. |
| Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss. |
| Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit. |
| What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures. |
| Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion. |
| Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry. |
| Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man. |
| Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. |
| No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas. |
| Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm. |
| Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form. |
| Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal. |
| The historian is a prophet looking backward. |
| Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin. |
| The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly. |
| Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation. |
| Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts. |
