The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

Philosophy is the true home of irony, which might be defined as logical beauty: for wherever men are philosophizing in spoken or written dialogues, and provided they are not entirely systematic, irony ought to be produced and postulated; even the Stoics regarded urbanity as a virtue.

The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art; poetry and philosophy should be united.

The historian is a prophet looking backward.