The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.