A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.