It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

That which reminds us of nature and thus stimulates a feeling for the infinite abundance of life is beautiful. Nature is organic,and therefore the highest beauty is forever vegetative; and the same is true for morality and love.

How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.

All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.

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

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.