The History Of The World Is None

Everybody Allows That To Know Any Other Science You Must Have First Studied It, And That You Can Only Claim To Express A Judgment Upon It In Virtue Of Such Knowledge. Everybody Allows That To Make A Shoe You Must Have Learned And Practised The Craft Of The Shoemaker, Though Every Man Has A Model In His Own Foot, And Possesses In His Hands The Natural Endowments For The Operations Required. For Philosophy Alone, It Seems To Be Imagined, Such Study, Care, And Application Are Not In The Least Requisite

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.

History As The Slaughter-bench

We Must Have A New Mythology, But It Must Place Itself At The Service Of Ideas, It Must Become A Mythology Of Reason. Mythology Must Become Philosophical, So That The People May Become Rational, And Philosophy Must Become Mythological, So That Philosophers May Become Sensible. If We Do Not Give Ideas A Form That Is Aesthetic, I.e., Mythological, They Will Hold No Interest For People.

The Owl Of Minerva Spreads Its Wings Only With The Falling Of The Dusk.