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

Philosophy Is The True Home Of Irony, Which Might Be Defined As Logical Beauty: For Wherever Men Are Philosophizing In Spoken Or Written Dialogues, And Provided They Are Not Entirely Systematic, Irony Ought To Be Produced And Postulated; Even The Stoics Regarded Urbanity As A Virtue.

The German National Character Is A Favorite Subject Of Character Experts, Probably Because The Less Mature A Nation, The More She Is An Object Of Criticism And Not Of History.

In Order To Be Able To Write Well Upon A Subject, One Must Have Ceased To Be Interested In It; The Thought Which Is To Be Soberlyexpressed Must Already Be Entirely Past And No Longer Be One's Actual Concern.

Where Philosophy Ends, Poetry Must Commence. There Should Not Be A Common Point Of View, A Natural Manner Of Thinking Which Standsin Contrast To Art And Liberal Education, Or Mere Living; That Is, One Should Not Conceive Of A Realm Of Crudeness Beyond The Boundaries Of Education. Every Conscious Link Of An Organism Should Not Perceive Its Limits Without A Feeling For Its Unity In Relation To The Whole. For Example, Philosophy Should Not Only Be Contrasted To Non-philosophy, But Also To Poetry.