Like Leibniz's Possible Worlds, Most Men Are

Is It Not Superfluous To Write More Than One Novel If The Writer Has Not Become, Say, A New Man? Obviously, All The Novels Of An Author Not Infrequently Belong Together And Are To A Certain Degree Only One Novel.

Original Love Never Appears In Pure Form, But In Manifold Veils And Shapes, Such As Confidence, Humility, Reverence, Serenity, Asfaithfulness And Modesty, As Gratefulness; But Primarily As Longing And Wistful Melancholy.

There Is No Self-knowledge But An Historical One. No One Knows What He Himself Is Who Does Not Know His Fellow Men, Especially The Most Prominent One Of The Community, The Master's Master, The Genius Of The Age.

Religion And Morals Are Symmetrically Opposed, Just Like Poetry And Philosophy.

Some Speak Of The Public As If It Were Someone With Whom They Have Had Dinner At The Leipzig Fair In The Hotel De Saxe. Who Is This Public? The Public Is Not A Thing, But Rather An Idea, A Postulate, Like The Church.