Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.

It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education and development of this individuality as one's highest vocation would be a divine egoism.

Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very interesting which would not have been so otherwise.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

The most important thing in love is the sense for one another, and the highest thing the faith in one another. Devotion is the expression of that faith, and pleasure can revive and enhance that sense, even if not create it, as is commonly thought. Therefore, sensuality can delude bad persons for a short time into thinking they could love each other.

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.