Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather together in a closed room.

Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

Can we expect the redemption of the world from scholars? I doubt it. But the time has come for all artists to join together as a confederation in an eternal league.

No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.

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.