Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

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

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

True love should be, according to its origin, entirely arbitrary and entirely accidental at the same time; it should seem both necessary and free; in keeping with its nature, however, it should be both destiny and virtue and appear as a mystery and a miracle.

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In this great personality of mankind, God became man.