Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

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.

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

Separate religion from morality, and you have the true energy for evil within man, the terrible, cruel, devastating, and inhuman principle which naturally lies in his spirit. Here the division of the indivisible punishes itself most awfully.

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.