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

Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal..

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

The historian is a prophet looking backward..

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself..

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime..

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….

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

Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise..

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….

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

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

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

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

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality..

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

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

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

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

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