A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.

You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.