Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.

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.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

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

A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.