Beauty Is That Which Is Simultaneously Attractive

Life Is Writing. The Sole Purpose Of Mankind Is To Engrave The Thoughts Of Divinity Onto The Tablets Of Nature.

In Order To Be Able To Write Well Upon A Subject, One Must Have Ceased To Be Interested In It; The Thought Which Is To Be Soberlyexpressed Must Already Be Entirely Past And No Longer Be One's Actual Concern.

When The Author Has No Idea Of What To Reply To A Critic, He Then Likes To Say: You Could Not Do It Better Anyway. This Is The Same As If A Dogmatic Philosopher Reproached A Skeptic For Not Being Able To Devise A System.

The Life Of The Artist Should Be Distinguished From That Of All Other People, Even In External Habits. They Are Brahmins, A Higher Caste, Not Ennobled By Birth, However, But Through Deliberate Self-initiation.

A Genuinely Free And Educated Man Should Be Able To Tune Himself, As One Tunes A Musical Instrument, Absolutely Arbitrarily, At His Convenience At Any Time And To Any Degree, Philosophically Or Philologically, Critically Or Poetically, Historically Or Rhetorically, In Ancient Or Modern Form.