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

Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.