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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
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.
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master’s master, the genius of the age.