Publication Is To Thinking As Childbirth Is

All Men Are Somewhat Ridiculous And Grotesque, Just Because They Are Men; And In This Respect Artists Might Well Be Regarded As Man Multiplied By Two. So It Is, Was, And Shall Be.

What Do The Few Existing Mystics Still Do? -- They More Or Less Mold The Raw Chaos Of Already Existing Religion. But Only In An Isolated, Insignificant Manner, Through Feeble Attempts. Do It In A Grand Manner From All Aspects With Unified Efforts, And Let Us Awaken All Religions From Their Graves, Newly Revivify And Form The Immortal Ones Through The Omnipotence Of Art And Science.

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.

I Can No Longer Say My Love And Your Love; They Are Both Alike In Their Perfect Mutuality.

Women Are Treated As Unjustly In Poetry As In Life. The Feminine Ones Are Not Idealistic, And The Idealistic Not Feminine.