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.

The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.

A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.

If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

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

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.