One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education and development of this individuality as one's highest vocation would be a divine egoism.

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

The main thing is to know something and to say it.

Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.