Every relationship of man to the infinite is religion, namely of a man in the full abundance of his humanity. Whenever a mathematician calculates infinity, that, to be sure, is not religion. Infinity conceived in this abundance is the Godhead.

In many a poetic work, one gets here and there, instead of representation merely a title indicating that this or that was supposedto be represented here, that the artist has been prevented from doing it and most humbly asks to be kindly excused.

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

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

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

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.