Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Honor is the mysticism of legality

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.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

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.

The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.