He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education and development of this individuality as one's highest vocation would be a divine egoism.

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.

Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as literary criticism is concerned, to rest.

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

Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.

The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.