Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

The following are the universally fundamental laws of literary communication: 1. one must have something to communicate; 2. one must have someone to whom to communicate it; 3. one must really communicate it, not merely express it for oneself alone. Otherwise it would be more to the point to remain silent.

The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional parody and passive wit can be deduced from it most easily and comprehensively.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.