The Historian Is A Prophet Looking Backward.

Wit As An Instrument Of Revenge Is As Infamous As Art Is As A Means Of Sensual Titillation.

Religion Is Usually Nothing But A Supplement To Or Even A Substitute For Education, And Nothing Is Religious In The Strict Sense Which Is Not A Product Of Freedom. Thus One Can Say: The Freer, The More Religious; And The More Education, The Less Religion.

Only Through Religion Can Logic Develop Into Philosophy, Only From This Source Stems That Which Makes Philosophy More Than Science. And Without Religion We Will Have Only Novels, Or The Triviality Today Called Belles Lettres Instead Of An Eternally Rich And Infinite Poetry.

Philosophy Is The True Home Of Irony, Which Might Be Defined As Logical Beauty: For Wherever Men Are Philosophizing In Spoken Or Written Dialogues, And Provided They Are Not Entirely Systematic, Irony Ought To Be Produced And Postulated; Even The Stoics Regarded Urbanity As A Virtue.

The Following Are The Universally Fundamental Laws Of Literary Communication: 1. One Must Have Something To Communicate; 2. One Must Have Someone To Whom To Communicate It; 3. One Must Really Communicate It, Not Merely Express It For Oneself Alone. Otherwise It Would Be More To The Point To Remain Silent.