The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

There are three kinds of explanation in science: explanations which throw a light upon, or give a hint at a matter; explanations which do not explain anything; and explanations which obscure everything.

God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it thatthis has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?

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

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