He was a dreamer a thinker a speculative philosopher... or as his wife would have it an idiot.

I will admit like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal also his fine art finally also the only kind of piety he knows his 'divine service.'

Art is an invention of aesthetics which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

We are not to give credit to the many who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers who say that the well-educated alone are free.