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

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to consider religion rather as a variation of poetry which by misjudging its proper beautiful game takes itself too seriously and one-sidedly. Philosophy, however, admits and recognizes that it can begin and complete itself only with religion. Poetry seeks only to strive for the infinite and despises worldly utility and culture, which are the true antitheses of religion. Eternal peace among artists is thus not far away.

Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to spiritual petrification.

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

Honor is the mysticism of legality