One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous alternation of self-creation and self-destruction. If it is only instinct, then it is childlike, childish, or silly; if it is only intention, it becomes affectation.

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

One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.

Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.

Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age.

God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it thatthis has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?