What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

All the great truths are basically trivial and so we have to find new ways, preferably paradoxical ways, of expressing them, in order to keep them from falling into oblivion.

Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as literary criticism is concerned, to rest.

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

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.