About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

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

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