Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

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

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.