Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just likethe old religion of nature and life.

The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art; poetry and philosophy should be united.

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.

Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.

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.

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.