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.

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

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a higher caste, not ennobled by birth, however, but through deliberate self-initiation.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Honor is the mysticism of legality