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

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

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

We do not see God, but everywhere we see something divine; first and most typically in the center of a reasonable man, in the depth of a living human product. You can directly feel and think nature, the universe, but not the Godhead. Only the man among men can poetize and think divinely and live with religion.

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as literary criticism is concerned, to rest.

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