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

Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine both, and you will have nothing but religion.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

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

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just likethe old religion of nature and life.