It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.

Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.

The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.

Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just likethe old religion of nature and life.

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.