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.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.