God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
Friedrich Schlegel
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
life mind
Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.
life
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
women poetry life
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
truth
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
work art
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
poetry philosophy music art
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
revenge art
nature
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.
theend
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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