The Sociability Of Artists Is

The Romantic Artist Expects People To Ask, 'what Has He Got To Say?' The Classical Artist Expects Them To Ask, 'how Does He Say It?

To Regard Such A Positive Mental Science [psychology] As Rising Above The Sphere Of History, And Establishing The Permanent And Unchanging Laws Of Human Nature, Is Therefore Possible Only To A Person Who Mistakes The Transient Conditions Of A Certain Historical Age For The Permanent Conditions Of Human Life.

The Aim Of Science Is To Apprehend This Purely Intelligible World As A Thing In Itself, An Object Which Is What It Is Independently Of All Thinking, And Thus Antithetical To The Sensible World.... The World Of Thought Is The Universal, The Timeless And Spaceless, The Absolutely Necessary, Whereas The World Of Sense Is The Contingent, The Changing And Moving Appearance Which Somehow Indicates Or Symbolizes It.

Like Other Revolutionaries I Can Thank God For The Reactionaries. They Clarify The Issue.

The Chief Business Of Seventeenth-century Philosophy Was To Reckon With Seventeenth-century Science... The Chief Business Of Twentieth-century Philosophy Is To Reckon With Twentieth-century History.