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.

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

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

Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine both, and you will have nothing but religion.