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.
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.
All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
