When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.

A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.

If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.

Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all the novels of an author not infrequently belong together and are to a certain degree only one novel.

There are three kinds of explanation in science: explanations which throw a light upon, or give a hint at a matter; explanations which do not explain anything; and explanations which obscure everything.