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?

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

One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.

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.

A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.

The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion, then withdraws into itself to assimilate it. The same is true of philosophy.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.