“ An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind. ”
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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.
