Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

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.

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

God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it thatthis has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?

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

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.