Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.

Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age.

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.

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

In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that islandare pedants. So are the "wits" there too. They introduce into reality absolute freedom whose reflection lends a romantic and piquant air to wit, and thus they live wittily; hence their talent for madness. They die for their principles.

Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.