Whoever Could Properly Characterize Goethe's Meister Would

Philosophy Is The True Home Of Irony, Which Might Be Defined As Logical Beauty: For Wherever Men Are Philosophizing In Spoken Or Written Dialogues, And Provided They Are Not Entirely Systematic, Irony Ought To Be Produced And Postulated; Even The Stoics Regarded Urbanity As A Virtue.

Nothing Is More Witty And Grotesque Than Ancient Mythology And Christianity; That Is Because They Are So Mystical.

The History Of Imitation Of The Older Literature, Particularly Abroad, Has Among Other Advantages This One, That The Important Concepts Of Unintentional Parody And Passive Wit Can Be Deduced From It Most Easily And Comprehensively.

We Do Not See God, But Everywhere We See Something Divine; First And Most Typically In The Center Of A Reasonable Man, In The Depth Of A Living Human Product. You Can Directly Feel And Think Nature, The Universe, But Not The Godhead. Only The Man Among Men Can Poetize And Think Divinely And Live With Religion.

Most Thoughts Are Only Profiles Of Thoughts. They Must Be Inverted And Synthesized With Their Antipodes. Thus Many Philosophical Writings Become Very Interesting Which Would Not Have Been So Otherwise.