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

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

Every relationship of man to the infinite is religion, namely of a man in the full abundance of his humanity. Whenever a mathematician calculates infinity, that, to be sure, is not religion. Infinity conceived in this abundance is the Godhead.

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.

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