For there is no art where there is no style, and no style where there is no unity, and unity is of the individual.
Quotes & Notes
The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.
The feeling we experience for nature resembles that of a sick man for health.
No prophecy is safer than that the results anticipated from a law will be greatly exceeded in amount by results not anticipated.