The main thing is to know something and to say it.
Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.
Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy.
Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.
Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
True love should be, according to its origin, entirely arbitrary and entirely accidental at the same time; it should seem both necessary and free; in keeping with its nature, however, it should be both destiny and virtue and appear as a mystery and a miracle.
The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: "And behold, what he had done was good.
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.
Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
The historian is a prophet looking backward.
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.
The naive which is simultaneously beautiful, poetic, and idealistic, must be both intention and instinct. The essence of intention, in this sense, is freedom. Consciousness is far from intention. There is a certain enamoured contemplation of one's own naturalness or silliness which itself is unspeakably silly. Intention does not necessarily require a profound calculation or plan.
All the great truths are basically trivial and so we have to find new ways, preferably paradoxical ways, of expressing them, in order to keep them from falling into oblivion.
The most important thing in love is the sense for one another, and the highest thing the faith in one another. Devotion is the expression of that faith, and pleasure can revive and enhance that sense, even if not create it, as is commonly thought. Therefore, sensuality can delude bad persons for a short time into thinking they could love each other.
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