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

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.

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.