Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

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.

Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.

No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.

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

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