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.

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?

It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education and development of this individuality as one's highest vocation would be a divine egoism.

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

A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.

Philosophy is the true home of irony, which might be defined as logical beauty: for wherever men are philosophizing in spoken or written dialogues, and provided they are not entirely systematic, irony ought to be produced and postulated; even the Stoics regarded urbanity as a virtue.

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.