Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.

All the great truths are basically trivial and so we have to find new ways, preferably paradoxical ways, of expressing them, in order to keep them from falling into oblivion.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

What do the few existing mystics still do? -- They more or less mold the raw chaos of already existing religion. But only in an isolated, insignificant manner, through feeble attempts. Do it in a grand manner from all aspects with unified efforts, and let us awaken all religions from their graves, newly revivify and form the immortal ones through the omnipotence of art and science.