Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

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

Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

We should never invoke the spirit of antiquity as our authority. Spirits are peculiar things; they cannot be grasped with the hands and be held up before others. Spirits reveal themselves only to spirits. The most direct and concise method would be, in this case as well, to prove the possession of the only redeeming faith by good works.

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.