Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

I have expressed some ideas that point to the center; I have saluted the dawn in my way, from my point of view. He who knows the way should do the same, in his way, and from his point of view.

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

In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.

The main thing is to know something and to say it.