The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.