Occupation: Poet Death: January 12, 1829
Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man..
When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics..
The historian is a prophet looking backward..
Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal..
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry..
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do..
All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two….
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself..
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality..
God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?.
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind..
Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous..
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center..
Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand….
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos..
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center..
Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts..
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime..
Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise..
Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and mod….
The main thing is to know something and to say it..