A Good Preface Must Be The Root

Philosophy Is The True Home Of Irony, Which Might Be Defined As Logical Beauty: For Wherever Men Are Philosophizing In Spoken Or Written Dialogues, And Provided They Are Not Entirely Systematic, Irony Ought To Be Produced And Postulated; Even The Stoics Regarded Urbanity As A Virtue.

The Naive Is What Is Or Appears To Be Natural, Individual, Or Classical To The Point Of Irony Or To The Point Of Continuous Alternation Of Self-creation And Self-destruction. If It Is Only Instinct, Then It Is Childlike, Childish, Or Silly; If It Is Only Intention, It Becomes Affectation.

One Should Have Wit, But Not Wish To Have It; Otherwise There Will Be Witticism, The Alexandrian Style Of Wit.

An Artist Is He For Whom The Goal And Center Of Life Is To Form His Mind.

Eternal Life And The Invisible World Are Only To Be Sought In God. Only Within Him Do All Spirits Dwell. He Is An Abyss Of Individuality, The Only Infinite Plenitude.