God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.

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

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

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.

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

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.