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

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.

All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.

The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: "And behold, what he had done was good.

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.