"In England … everything becomes professional … even the rogues of that island are pedants."

"Whoever hasn’t yet arrived at the clear realization that there might be a greatness existing entirely outside his own…"

"In the same way as philosophy loses sight of its true object and appropriate matter, when either it passes into and m…"

"Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as repr…"

"It is equally fatal for the spirit to have a system and to have none. One must thus decide to join the two."

"Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time."

"Honour is the mysticism of legality."

"The study of Indian Literature requires to be embraced by such students and patrons as in the 15th and 16th centuries…"

"Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism."

"Bei den Ausdrücken, „Seine Philosophie”, „Meine Philosophie”, erinnert man sich immer an die Worte im Nathan: „Wem ei…"