“A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.”
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Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to 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.
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
