Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

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.

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

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.

Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.