A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.

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

Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.