“Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.”
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If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
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. So it is, was, and shall be.
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
