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

Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

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

Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather together in a closed room.

Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to art and liberal education, or mere living; that is, one should not conceive of a realm of crudeness beyond the boundaries of education. Every conscious link of an organism should not perceive its limits without a feeling for its unity in relation to the whole. For example, philosophy should not only be contrasted to non-philosophy, but also to poetry.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.