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.

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

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.

With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.

There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.

No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.