Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that islandare pedants. So are the "wits" there too. They introduce into reality absolute freedom whose reflection lends a romantic and piquant air to wit, and thus they live wittily; hence their talent for madness. They die for their principles.

Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.

A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.