All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.

Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.

Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

All our knowledge begins with the senses...