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.

Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine both, and you will have nothing but religion.

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

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

True love should be, according to its origin, entirely arbitrary and entirely accidental at the same time; it should seem both necessary and free; in keeping with its nature, however, it should be both destiny and virtue and appear as a mystery and a miracle.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very interesting which would not have been so otherwise.