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

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

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

How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.

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.

Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.

Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.