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

God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it thatthis has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?

Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to spiritual petrification.

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

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

The most important thing in love is the sense for one another, and the highest thing the faith in one another. Devotion is the expression of that faith, and pleasure can revive and enhance that sense, even if not create it, as is commonly thought. Therefore, sensuality can delude bad persons for a short time into thinking they could love each other.

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.