The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

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

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.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

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.

One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should be said, or to say many things which did not need to be said. The first is the original sin of synthetic natures, the latter of analytical natures.