Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Good drama must be drastic.
Honor is the mysticism of legality
Virtue is reason which has become energy.
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
The historian is a prophet looking backward.
In true prose everything must be underlined.
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
The main thing is to know something and to say it.
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful.
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.
The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.
About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.
The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.
A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.
Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.
Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.
Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.