What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also infinitelyvaluable. There are artists who perhaps do not think art to be too great, for this is impossible, and yet they are not free enough to be able to rise above their own best accomplishments.

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

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

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?

A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.