As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
Friedrich Schlegel
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
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Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.
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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
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