Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed
Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.
An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.