The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

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

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.