The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
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.
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
The historian is a prophet looking backward.
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
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.
The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
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.
Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.
Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
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.
A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
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.
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.
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.
When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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