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

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.

Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.

Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all the novels of an author not infrequently belong together and are to a certain degree only one novel.

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.

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.