Plato's Philosophy Is A Dignified Preface To

We Should Never Invoke The Spirit Of Antiquity As Our Authority. Spirits Are Peculiar Things; They Cannot Be Grasped With The Hands And Be Held Up Before Others. Spirits Reveal Themselves Only To Spirits. The Most Direct And Concise Method Would Be, In This Case As Well, To Prove The Possession Of The Only Redeeming Faith By Good Works.

Many Works Of The Ancients Have Become Fragments. Many Works Of The Moderns Are Fragments At The Time Of Their Origin.

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.

The Few Existing Writings Against Kantian Philosophy Are The Most Important Documents In The Case History Of Sound Common Sense.

No Idea Is Isolated, But Is Only What It Is Among All Ideas.