It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

Good drama must be drastic.

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

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

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

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