Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

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

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter of things -- to which the Stoic strictly adheres -- but in looking up to the spirit of things; in absolute contempt of all economic values and political splendor, and in courageous defence of the rights of independent freedom; then Christianity would be nothing but universal cynicism.

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.