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

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.

Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

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

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.

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