You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself.

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

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

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

Some speak of the public as if it were someone with whom they have had dinner at the Leipzig Fair in the Hotel de Saxe. Who is this public? The public is not a thing, but rather an idea, a postulate, like the Church.

With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.