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

Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very interesting which would not have been so otherwise.

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.