Good drama must be drastic.

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to consider religion rather as a variation of poetry which by misjudging its proper beautiful game takes itself too seriously and one-sidedly. Philosophy, however, admits and recognizes that it can begin and complete itself only with religion. Poetry seeks only to strive for the infinite and despises worldly utility and culture, which are the true antitheses of religion. Eternal peace among artists is thus not far away.

Separate religion from morality, and you have the true energy for evil within man, the terrible, cruel, devastating, and inhuman principle which naturally lies in his spirit. Here the division of the indivisible punishes itself most awfully.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

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