Ideas Are Infinite, Original, And Lively Divine

There Is So Much Poetry, And Yet Nothing Is More Rare Than A Poetic Work. This Is What The Masses Make Out Of Poetical Sketches, Studies, Aphorisms, Trends, Ruins, And Raw Material.

The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory Of Knowledge, And Goethe's Wilhelm Meister Are The Three Greatest Tendencies Of The Age. Whoever Takes Offence At This Combination, And Whoever Does Not Consider A Revolution Important Unless It Is Blatant And Palpable, Has Not Yet Risen To The Lofty And Broad Vantage Point Of The History Of Mankind.

Philosophy Still Moves Too Much Straight Ahead, And Is Not Yet Cyclical Enough.

Witty Inspirations Are The Proverbs Of The Educated.

Religion Is Usually Nothing But A Supplement To Or Even A Substitute For Education, And Nothing Is Religious In The Strict Sense Which Is Not A Product Of Freedom. Thus One Can Say: The Freer, The More Religious; And The More Education, The Less Religion.