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

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

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.

When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.

The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.