Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating the seriousness of existence and the complexities of the real life, extinguishing idleness in an entertaining fashion, and, where there is nothing good to be achieved, filling the place of vice better than vice itself.

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning . One orients one's attitude toward the either by or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the latter, in that one knows how one stands.