Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

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

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.

Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.

To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.

The more certain our knowledge the less we know.

In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks to the level of information, exercises, and even pastimes for children; and in this educational progress we can see the history of the world's culture delineated in faint outline.