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

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

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.

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

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

Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.