The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous alternation of self-creation and self-destruction. If it is only instinct, then it is childlike, childish, or silly; if it is only intention, it becomes affectation.

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

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

In true prose everything must be underlined.

Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

In order to be able to write well upon a subject, one must have ceased to be interested in it; the thought which is to be soberlyexpressed must already be entirely past and no longer be one's actual concern.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?