Man Is A Creative Retrospection Of Nature

Considered Subjectively, Philosophy Always Begins In The Middle, Like An Epic Poem.

Many Works Of The Ancients Have Become Fragments. Many Works Of The Moderns Are Fragments At The Time Of Their Origin.

Sense (for A Particular Art, Science, Human Being, And So Forth) Is Divided Spirit; Self-restraint Is Consequently The Result Of Self-creation And Self-destruction.

A Genuinely Free And Educated Man Should Be Able To Tune Himself, As One Tunes A Musical Instrument, Absolutely Arbitrarily, At His Convenience At Any Time And To Any Degree, Philosophically Or Philologically, Critically Or Poetically, Historically Or Rhetorically, In Ancient Or Modern Form.

As Long As The Artist Invents And Is Inspired, He Remains In A Constrained State Of Mind, At Least For The Purpose Of Communication. He Then Wants To Say Everything, Which Is The Wrong Tendency Of Young Geniuses Or The Right Prejudice Of Old Bunglers. Thus, He Fails To Recognize The Value And Dignity Of Self-restraint, Which Is Indeed For Both The Artist And The Man The First And The Last, The Most Necessary And The Highest Goal.