And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, f….

Women are certainly more happy in this than we men: their employments occupy a smaller portion of their thoughts, and the earnest longing of the hear….

No God without a world, and no world without God..

Since each person, as an individual, is the not-being of the other, it is never possible to eliminate non-understanding completely..

Whenever I find a spark of that hidden fire that will sooner or later consume the old and create the new, I am drawn to it with love and hope, regard….

Either the translator leaves the author in peace, as much as is possible, and moves the reader towards him: or he leaves the reader in peace, as much….

The essence of the religious emotions consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence..

To be a religions man and to pray are really one and the same thing. To join in the thought of God with every thought of any importance that occurs t….

Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of understanding the will a….

For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than sc….

Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which i….

Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain bound up with sin; in com….

Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an in….