It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
The historian is a prophet looking backward.
There are three kinds of explanation in science: explanations which throw a light upon, or give a hint at a matter; explanations which do not explain anything; and explanations which obscure everything.