On The Stage On Which We Are

Too Fair To Worship, Too Divine To Love.

The Proofs Of The Existence Of God Are To Such An Extent Fallen Into Discredit That They Pass For Something Antiquated, Belonging To Days Gone By.

Before The End Of Time Will Be The End Of History. Before The End Of History Will Be The End Of Art.

Poetry Is The Universal Art Of The Spirit Which Has Become Free In Itself And Which Is Not Tied Down For Its Realization To External Sensuous Material; Instead, It Launches Out Exclusively In The Inner Space And The Inner Time Of Ideas And Feelings.

Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, Are Wont To Be Emphatically Commended To The Teaching Which Experience Offers In History. But What Experience And History Teach Is This - That People And Governments Never Have Learned Anything From History, Or Acted On Principles Deduced From It. Each Period Is Involved In Such Peculiar Circumstances, Exhibits A Condition Of Things So Strictly Idiosyncratic, That Its Conduct Must Be Regulated By Considerations Connected With Itself, And Itself Alone.