If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to shy away from even the slowest and most detailed analysis of the most unnatural lusts, gruesome tortures, shocking infamy, and disgusting sensual or spiritual impotence.

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.

In many a poetic work, one gets here and there, instead of representation merely a title indicating that this or that was supposedto be represented here, that the artist has been prevented from doing it and most humbly asks to be kindly excused.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.