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

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

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

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

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.