Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.

Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.

If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.

The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: "And behold, what he had done was good.

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

All the great truths are basically trivial and so we have to find new ways, preferably paradoxical ways, of expressing them, in order to keep them from falling into oblivion.

There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.