Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

The main thing is to know something and to say it.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

We do not see God, but everywhere we see something divine; first and most typically in the center of a reasonable man, in the depth of a living human product. You can directly feel and think nature, the universe, but not the Godhead. Only the man among men can poetize and think divinely and live with religion.

Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.