There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.

Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.

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.

Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education and development of this individuality as one's highest vocation would be a divine egoism.

Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather together in a closed room.

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.