Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry..

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….

Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man..

Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and mod….

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind..

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous..

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?.

Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand….

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 fr….

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos..

All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two….

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime..

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center..

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..

Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts..

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center..

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself..

The main thing is to know something and to say it..

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics..

The historian is a prophet looking backward..