Life Is Writing. The Sole

One Should Have Wit, But Not Wish To Have It; Otherwise There Will Be Witticism, The Alexandrian Style Of Wit.

The Meanest Authors Have At Least This Similarity With The Great Author Of Heaven And Earth, That They Usually Say After A Completed Day Of Work: "and Behold, What He Had Done Was Good.

Aphorisms Are The True Form Of The Universal Philosophy.

Art And Works Of Art Do Not Make An Artist; Sense And Enthusiasm And Instinct Do.

It Is A Thoughtless And Immodest Presumption To Learn Anything About Art From Philosophy. Some Do Begin As If They Hoped To Learnsomething New Here, Since Philosophy Cannot And Should Not Do Anything Further Than Develop The Given Art Experiences And The Existing Art Concepts Into A Science, Improve The Views Of Art, And Promote Them With The Help Of A Thoroughly Scholarly Art History, And Produce That Logical Mood About These Subjects Too Which Unites Absolute Liberalism With Absolute Rigor.