…the highest act of reason, which, in that it comprises all ideas, is an aesthetic act, and that truth and goodness are united like sisters only in beauty - The philosopher must possess just as much aesthetic power as the poet. The people without aesthetic sense are or philosophers of the letter. The philosophy of spirit is an aesthetic philosophy. One cannot be clever in anything, one cannot even reason clearly in history - without aesthetic sense. It should now be revealed here what those people who do not understand ideas are actually lacking - and candidly enough admit that everything is obscure to them as soon as one goes beyond charts and indices.

Poetry thereby obtains a higher dignity; it becomes again in the end what it was in the beginning - teacher of the human race because there is no longer any philosophy, any history; poetic art will alone outlive all the rest of the sciences and arts.

… Monotheism of reason and the heart, polytheism of the imagination and art, that is what we need!