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“He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.”
“Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.”
“How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.”
“From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.”
“What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.”
“Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.”
“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.”
“About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.”
“Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.”
“Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.”
“Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.”
“When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.”
“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.”
“Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.”
“There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.”
“A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.”
“Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.”
“It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.”
“A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.”
“Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.”