Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.

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

Philosophy is the true home of irony, which might be defined as logical beauty: for wherever men are philosophizing in spoken or written dialogues, and provided they are not entirely systematic, irony ought to be produced and postulated; even the Stoics regarded urbanity as a virtue.

In true prose everything must be underlined.

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.

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.