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.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.

I can no longer say my love and your love; they are both alike in their perfect mutuality.

When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.

Even a friendly conversation which cannot be at any given moment be broken off voluntarily with complete arbitrariness has something illiberal about it. An artist, however, who is able and wants to express himself completely, who keeps nothing to himself and would wish to say everything he knows, is very much to be pitied.