The most important thing in love is the sense for one another, and the highest thing the faith in one another. Devotion is the expression of that faith, and pleasure can revive and enhance that sense, even if not create it, as is commonly thought. Therefore, sensuality can delude bad persons for a short time into thinking they could love each other.

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.