When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better anyway. This is the same as if a dogmatic philosopher reproached a skeptic for not being able to devise a system.

The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In this great personality of mankind, God became man.

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

True love should be, according to its origin, entirely arbitrary and entirely accidental at the same time; it should seem both necessary and free; in keeping with its nature, however, it should be both destiny and virtue and appear as a mystery and a miracle.

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

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.