In order to be able to write well upon a subject, one must have ceased to be interested in it; the thought which is to be soberlyexpressed must already be entirely past and no longer be one's actual concern.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion, then withdraws into itself to assimilate it. The same is true of philosophy.