Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.

Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art.

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.