Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without religion we will have only novels, or the triviality today called belles lettres instead of an eternally rich and infinite poetry.

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as literary criticism is concerned, to rest.

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.