It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education and development of this individuality as one's highest vocation would be a divine egoism.

Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

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

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or through good connections, or through effort,or through moderate immorality, or through accomplished incomprehensibility, or through harmonious platitude, or through versatile boredom, or through constant striving after the absolute.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?