Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all the novels of an author not infrequently belong together and are to a certain degree only one novel.

Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.

Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age.

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

It is a thoughtless and immodest presumption to learn anything about art from philosophy. Some do begin as if they hoped to learnsomething new here, since philosophy cannot and should not do anything further than develop the given art experiences and the existing art concepts into a science, improve the views of art, and promote them with the help of a thoroughly scholarly art history, and produce that logical mood about these subjects too which unites absolute liberalism with absolute rigor.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.