“God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?”
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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
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.
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.