Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.

In true prose everything must be underlined.

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.

If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter of things -- to which the Stoic strictly adheres -- but in looking up to the spirit of things; in absolute contempt of all economic values and political splendor, and in courageous defence of the rights of independent freedom; then Christianity would be nothing but universal cynicism.

An artist is he who has his center within himself. He who lacks this must choose a particular leader and mediator outside of himself, not forever, however, but only at first. For man cannot exist without a living center, and if he does not have it within himself, he may seek it only in a human being. Only a human being and his center can stimulate and awaken that of another.

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.