What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.