Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very interesting which would not have been so otherwise.

If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to consider religion rather as a variation of poetry which by misjudging its proper beautiful game takes itself too seriously and one-sidedly. Philosophy, however, admits and recognizes that it can begin and complete itself only with religion. Poetry seeks only to strive for the infinite and despises worldly utility and culture, which are the true antitheses of religion. Eternal peace among artists is thus not far away.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.