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.

Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

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

German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or through good connections, or through effort,or through moderate immorality, or through accomplished incomprehensibility, or through harmonious platitude, or through versatile boredom, or through constant striving after the absolute.

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

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