If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation like "Goodness alive!" would be the best criticism of the most deserving work of art. There are critiques which say nothing but that, only they do so more extensively.

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

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

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

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

Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.