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

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

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….

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself..

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one..

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

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

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do..

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….

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..

Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined..

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