The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

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

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.

The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional parody and passive wit can be deduced from it most easily and comprehensively.