Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine. 606
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. 586
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. 595
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible. 653
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry. 552
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form. 577
