Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age.

Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.

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

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without religion we will have only novels, or the triviality today called belles lettres instead of an eternally rich and infinite poetry.