The two basic maxims of the so-called historical criticism are the postulate of the common and the axiom of the ordinary. Postulate of the common: everything really great, good, and beautiful, is improbable, since it is extraordinary and therefore at least suspect. Axiom of the ordinary: our conditions and environment must have existed everywhere, for they are really so natural.

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

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.

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

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

Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.

Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art.