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All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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.
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.
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
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