Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.

Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

Separate religion from morality, and you have the true energy for evil within man, the terrible, cruel, devastating, and inhuman principle which naturally lies in his spirit. Here the division of the indivisible punishes itself most awfully.

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

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.

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.