We have to regard art as the greater enhancement, the more perfect development of all this; for essentially it achieves just the same thing as is achieved by the visible world itself, only with greater concentration, perfection, intention and intelligence; and therefore, in the full sense of the word, it may be called the flower of life.

We find ourselves like a hollow glass globe, from whose vacancy a voice speaks.

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

There is no Kantian-Fichtean philosophy: there is Kantian philosophy and there is Fichtean humbug.

Ethics and Aesthetics are one.

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the e…

Qu'est-ce que l'Art, monsieur? C'est la Nature concentree.