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

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?