The Romantic Artist Expects People To Ask,

The Aim Of Science Is To Apprehend This Purely Intelligible World As A Thing In Itself, An Object Which Is What It Is Independently Of All Thinking, And Thus Antithetical To The Sensible World.... The World Of Thought Is The Universal, The Timeless And Spaceless, The Absolutely Necessary, Whereas The World Of Sense Is The Contingent, The Changing And Moving Appearance Which Somehow Indicates Or Symbolizes It.

The Chief Business Of Seventeenth-century Philosophy Was To Reckon With Seventeenth-century Science... The Chief Business Of Twentieth-century Philosophy Is To Reckon With Twentieth-century History.

Every New Generation Must Rewrite History In Its Own Way.

The Romantic Artist Expects People To Ask, 'what Has He Got To Say?' The Classical Artist Expects Them To Ask, 'how Does He Say It?

Art Has No Cosmology, It Gives Us No View Of The Universe; Every Distinct Work Of Art Gives Us A Little Cosmology Of Its Own, And No Ingenuity Will Combine All These Into A Single Whole.