Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.

Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just likethe old religion of nature and life.

Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.

In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.

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

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.

Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction of free sociability electrifies it to such an extent that the most gentle stimulus of friendly or hostile contact elicits from it lightning sparks, luminous flashes, or shattering blows.