Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine both, and you will have nothing but religion.

Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

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.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?