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.

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.

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

Every relationship of man to the infinite is religion, namely of a man in the full abundance of his humanity. Whenever a mathematician calculates infinity, that, to be sure, is not religion. Infinity conceived in this abundance is the Godhead.

Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.