If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.