Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

Can we expect the redemption of the world from scholars? I doubt it. But the time has come for all artists to join together as a confederation in an eternal league.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should be said, or to say many things which did not need to be said. The first is the original sin of synthetic natures, the latter of analytical natures.

The historian is a prophet looking backward.