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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.
One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
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.
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
The historian is a prophet looking backward.
The main thing is to know something and to say it.
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