"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."

"Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?"

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

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

"Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art."

"Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born."

"Art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."