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.

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

Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

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

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.