The historian is a prophet looking backward.

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

The historian is a prophet looking backward.

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

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

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.