About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
Plato’s philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.
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?