Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.

Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

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

The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.

The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art; poetry and philosophy should be united.

Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also infinitelyvaluable. There are artists who perhaps do not think art to be too great, for this is impossible, and yet they are not free enough to be able to rise above their own best accomplishments.

Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.