Whoever has not arrived at the clear insight that there might be greatness entirely outside his own sphere for which he has no understanding, whoever does not have at least a dim inkling in which area of the human spirit this greatness might be situated: he is within his own sphere either without genius, or he has not educated himself up to the point of the classical attitude.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: "And behold, what he had done was good.

No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.

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.

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.