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.

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.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy.

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.

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

Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without religion we will have only novels, or the triviality today called belles lettres instead of an eternally rich and infinite poetry.