Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather together in a closed room.

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

The following are the universally fundamental laws of literary communication: 1. one must have something to communicate; 2. one must have someone to whom to communicate it; 3. one must really communicate it, not merely express it for oneself alone. Otherwise it would be more to the point to remain silent.

All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.