Every Complete Man Has His Genius. True

One Has Only As Much Morality As One Has Philosophy And Poetry.

We Should Never Invoke The Spirit Of Antiquity As Our Authority. Spirits Are Peculiar Things; They Cannot Be Grasped With The Hands And Be Held Up Before Others. Spirits Reveal Themselves Only To Spirits. The Most Direct And Concise Method Would Be, In This Case As Well, To Prove The Possession Of The Only Redeeming Faith By Good Works.

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.

The Two Basic Maxims Of The So-called Historical Criticism Are The Postulate Of The Common And The Axiom Of The Ordinary. Postulate Of The Common: Everything Really Great, Good, And Beautiful, Is Improbable, Since It Is Extraordinary And Therefore At Least Suspect. Axiom Of The Ordinary: Our Conditions And Environment Must Have Existed Everywhere, For They Are Really So Natural.

You Wanted To Destroy Philosophy And Poetry In Order To Make Room For Religion And Morality Which You Misunderstood: But You Wereable To Destroy Only Yourself.