 Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy. |
| Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime. |
| All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be. |
| When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics. |
| An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. |
| A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory. |
| Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. |
| The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary. |
