Take it and return it: the kiss of love.

Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence). Humor is the birth -pangs of the absolute mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between the I and the idea of the I .

Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.

Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.