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.

The following are the universally fundamental laws of literary communication: 1. one must have something to communicate; 2. one must have someone to whom to communicate it; 3. one must really communicate it, not merely express it for oneself alone. Otherwise it would be more to the point to remain silent.

Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very interesting which would not have been so otherwise.

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.

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

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.