Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
From Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.
Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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