The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In this great personality of mankind, God became man.

Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.

Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend had better remain unwritten. They would at least never become works of art.

Every relationship of man to the infinite is religion, namely of a man in the full abundance of his humanity. Whenever a mathematician calculates infinity, that, to be sure, is not religion. Infinity conceived in this abundance is the Godhead.

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

In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

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