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.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.

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 must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.