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.

The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.

When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.

Honor is the mysticism of legality

Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.