Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

Can we expect the redemption of the world from scholars? I doubt it. But the time has come for all artists to join together as a confederation in an eternal league.

Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.