A Priest Is He Who Lives Solely

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.

Many A Witty Inspiration Is Like The Surprising Reunion Of Befriended Thoughts After A Long Separation.

The Historian Is A Prophet Looking Backward.

Most Thoughts Are Only Profiles Of Thoughts. They Must Be Inverted And Synthesized With Their Antipodes. Thus Many Philosophical Writings Become Very Interesting Which Would Not Have Been So Otherwise.

It Is A Thoughtless And Immodest Presumption To Learn Anything About Art From Philosophy. Some Do Begin As If They Hoped To Learnsomething New Here, Since Philosophy Cannot And Should Not Do Anything Further Than Develop The Given Art Experiences And The Existing Art Concepts Into A Science, Improve The Views Of Art, And Promote Them With The Help Of A Thoroughly Scholarly Art History, And Produce That Logical Mood About These Subjects Too Which Unites Absolute Liberalism With Absolute Rigor.