To Him Who Looks Upon The World

Amid The Pressure Of Great Events, A General Principle Gives No Help.

God Is, As It Were, The Sewer Into Which All Contradictions Flow.

The East Knew And To The Present Day Knows Only That One Is Free; The Greek And The Roman World, That Some Are Free; The German World Knows That All Are Free. The First Political Form Therefore Which We Observe In History, Is Despotism, The Second Democracy And Aristocracy, The Third, Monarchy.

Too Fair To Worship, Too Divine To Love.

Nothing Great Has Been And Nothing Great Can Be Accomplished Without Passion. It Is Only A Dead, Too Often, Indeed, A Hypocriticalmoralizing Which Inveighs Against The Form Of Passion As Such.