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

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.