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.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a higher caste, not ennobled by birth, however, but through deliberate self-initiation.

Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

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