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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?
The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
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.
There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
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.
Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
Virtue is reason which has become energy.
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
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.
Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
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