Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction of free sociability electrifies it to such an extent that the most gentle stimulus of friendly or hostile contact elicits from it lightning sparks, luminous flashes, or shattering blows.

When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a higher caste, not ennobled by birth, however, but through deliberate self-initiation.

Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without religion we will have only novels, or the triviality today called belles lettres instead of an eternally rich and infinite poetry.

Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.

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