Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.

Honor is the mysticism of legality

All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.

Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also infinitelyvaluable. There are artists who perhaps do not think art to be too great, for this is impossible, and yet they are not free enough to be able to rise above their own best accomplishments.

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

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.