Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful.

The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.

When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better anyway. This is the same as if a dogmatic philosopher reproached a skeptic for not being able to devise a system.

The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art; poetry and philosophy should be united.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art.