When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.

Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.

Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age.