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?

With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.

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.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.

Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.