Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more--the person is alone, like a baleful power--as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually--and in accordance with his own principle he is--misanthropic and misotheos.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.