Good drama must be drastic.

Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.

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.

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

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.