Is it man that possesses love, or is it not much rather love that possesses man?

[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.

What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.

For the religious the holy is truth, for the philosophic the truth is holy.

I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i. e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.