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.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.

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

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.