Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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.
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.
Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.
Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
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.
What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
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