Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

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.

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to art and liberal education, or mere living; that is, one should not conceive of a realm of crudeness beyond the boundaries of education. Every conscious link of an organism should not perceive its limits without a feeling for its unity in relation to the whole. For example, philosophy should not only be contrasted to non-philosophy, but also to poetry.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

All the great truths are basically trivial and so we have to find new ways, preferably paradoxical ways, of expressing them, in order to keep them from falling into oblivion.