Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

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

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.

The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.

An artist is he who has his center within himself. He who lacks this must choose a particular leader and mediator outside of himself, not forever, however, but only at first. For man cannot exist without a living center, and if he does not have it within himself, he may seek it only in a human being. Only a human being and his center can stimulate and awaken that of another.

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