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.

Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

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

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.