A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

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?

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as literary criticism is concerned, to rest.

The naive which is simultaneously beautiful, poetic, and idealistic, must be both intention and instinct. The essence of intention, in this sense, is freedom. Consciousness is far from intention. There is a certain enamoured contemplation of one's own naturalness or silliness which itself is unspeakably silly. Intention does not necessarily require a profound calculation or plan.

When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.

The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.