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

How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.

An artist is he who has his center within himself. He who lacks this must choose a particular leader and mediator outside of himself, not forever, however, but only at first. For man cannot exist without a living center, and if he does not have it within himself, he may seek it only in a human being. Only a human being and his center can stimulate and awaken that of another.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

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

The main thing is to know something and to say it.

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.