Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

The two basic maxims of the so-called historical criticism are the postulate of the common and the axiom of the ordinary. Postulate of the common: everything really great, good, and beautiful, is improbable, since it is extraordinary and therefore at least suspect. Axiom of the ordinary: our conditions and environment must have existed everywhere, for they are really so natural.

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.