Art Compares To Nature Like Wine To

From A Distance The Rushing Of The Torrent Delights And Uplifts Us, But It Rocks Us In A Flimsy Boat, We Are Overwhelmed By Despair. The Same Applies To Danger.

When We Interpret Nature, We Refer Phenomena That Are Rarely Entirely Unintelligible Back To Something That Actually Exists, But Is Equally Unintelligible.

Robespierre, This Pedant Of Freedom!

How Great Seems Human Progress When We Consider Where It Began, And How Insignificant, When We Contemplate The Goals For Which Itstrives.

The Course Of Modern Learning Leads From Humanism Via Nationalism To Bestiality.