About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: "And behold, what he had done was good.

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?

Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.

The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.