An Aphorism Ought To Be Entirely Isolated

The Analytical Writer Observes The Reader As He Is; Accordingly, He Makes His Calculation, Sets His Machine To Make The Appropriate Effect On Him. The Synthetic Writer Constructs And Creates His Own Reader; He Does Not Imagine Him As Resting And Dead, But Lively And Advancing Toward Him. He Makes That Which He Had Invented Gradually Take Shape Before The Reader's Eyes, Or He Tempts Him To Do The Inventing For Himself. He Does Not Want To Make A Particular Effect On Him, But Rather Enters Into A Solemn Relationship Of Innermost Symphilosophy Or Sympoetry.

German Writings Attain Popularity Through A Great Name, Or Through Personalities, Or Through Good Connections, Or Through Effort,or Through Moderate Immorality, Or Through Accomplished Incomprehensibility, Or Through Harmonious Platitude, Or Through Versatile Boredom, Or Through Constant Striving After The Absolute.

All The Classical Genres Are Now Ridiculous In Their Rigorous Purity.

Poetry And Philosophy Are, According To How You Take Them, Different Spheres, Different Forms, Or Factors Of Religion. Try To Really Combine Both, And You Will Have Nothing But 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.