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

Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

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.

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous alternation of self-creation and self-destruction. If it is only instinct, then it is childlike, childish, or silly; if it is only intention, it becomes affectation.