Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.