No Man Is A Hero To His

The Sublime In Art Is The Attempt To Express The Infinite Without Finding In The Realm Of Phenomena Any Object Which Proves Itself Fitting For This Representation.

To Be Aware Of Limitations Is Already To Be Beyond Them.

When We Walk The Streets At Night In Safety, It Does Not Strike Us That This Might Be Otherwise. This Habit Of Feeling Safe Has Become Second Nature, And We Do Not Reflect On Just How This Is Due Solely To The Working Of Special Institutions. Commonplace Thinking Often Has The Impression That Force Holds The State Together, But In Fact Its Only Bond Is The Fundamental Sense Of Order Which Everybody Possesses.

To Be Independent Of Public Opinion Is The First Formal Condition Of Achieving Anything Great Or Rational Whether In Life Or In Science. Great Achievement Is Assured, However, Of Subsequent Recognition And Grateful Acceptance By Public Opinion, Which In Due Course Will Make It One Of Its Own Prejudices

The Life Of God - The Life Which The Mind Apprehends And Enjoys As It Rises To The Absolute Unity Of All Things - May Be Described As A Play Of Love With Itself; But This Idea Sinks To An Edifying Truism, Or Even To A Platitude, When It Does Not Embrace In It The Earnestness, The Pain, The Patience, And Labor, Involved In The Negative Aspect Of Things.