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

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

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

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

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

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

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

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.