Laziness Is The One Divine Fragment Of

Religion And Morals Are Symmetrically Opposed, Just Like Poetry And Philosophy.

If You Want To See Mankind Fully, Look At A Family. Within The Family Minds Become Organically One, And For This Reason The Family Is Total Poetry.

The Two Basic Maxims Of The So-called Historical Criticism Are The Postulate Of The Common And The Axiom Of The Ordinary. Postulate Of The Common: Everything Really Great, Good, And Beautiful, Is Improbable, Since It Is Extraordinary And Therefore At Least Suspect. Axiom Of The Ordinary: Our Conditions And Environment Must Have Existed Everywhere, For They Are Really So Natural.

Where Philosophy Ends, Poetry Must Commence. There Should Not Be A Common Point Of View, A Natural Manner Of Thinking Which Standsin Contrast To Art And Liberal Education, Or Mere Living; That Is, One Should Not Conceive Of A Realm Of Crudeness Beyond The Boundaries Of Education. Every Conscious Link Of An Organism Should Not Perceive Its Limits Without A Feeling For Its Unity In Relation To The Whole. For Example, Philosophy Should Not Only Be Contrasted To Non-philosophy, But Also To Poetry.

The Naive Is What Is Or Appears To Be Natural, Individual, Or Classical To The Point Of Irony Or To The Point Of Continuous Alternation Of Self-creation And Self-destruction. If It Is Only Instinct, Then It Is Childlike, Childish, Or Silly; If It Is Only Intention, It Becomes Affectation.