The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better anyway. This is the same as if a dogmatic philosopher reproached a skeptic for not being able to devise a system.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

Every relationship of man to the infinite is religion, namely of a man in the full abundance of his humanity. Whenever a mathematician calculates infinity, that, to be sure, is not religion. Infinity conceived in this abundance is the Godhead.