German Ideals of To-day: And Other Essays on German CultureHoughton, Mifflin, 1907 - 341 páginas This book contains a collection of essays and sketches which showcase the literary and artistic achievments of Germany in order to provide a picture of the German national mind and character. |
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Página 101 - I embrace the common; I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.
Página 152 - In Italy this veil first melted into air; an objective treatment and consideration of the State and of all the things of this world became possible. The subjective side at the same time asserted itself with corresponding emphasis; man became a spiritual individual, and recognized himself as such.
Página 57 - The sphere of Earth is known enough to me; The view beyond is barred immutably: A fool, who there his blinking eyes directeth And o'er his clouds of peers a place expecteth ! Firm let him stand, and look around him well. This World means something to the Capable. Why needs he through Eternity to wend? He here acquires what he can apprehend.
Página 62 - Und umzuschaffen das Geschaffne, Damit sich's nicht zum Starren waffne, Wirkt ewiges lebendiges Tun. Und was nicht war, nun will es werden Zu reinen Sonnen, farbigen Erden, In keinem Falle darf es ruhn.
Página 83 - ... (which otherwise only burdens us as rugged matter and presses us down with a brute influence) ; to transform it into the free working of our spirit, and thus acquire a dominion over the material by means of ideas.
Página 71 - Thus we are driven from the whole to the part, and from the part to the whole, whether we will or not.
Página 203 - ... others in still different postures and moods — there is not a figure among them which did not represent a particular individual at a particular moment, and which did not, without losing itself in capricious imitation of accidental trifles, reproduce life as it is. It is impossible in the face of such works of sculpture as these not to feel that they proceeded from artists deeply versed in the study of human character, fully alive to the problems of human conduct, keenly sensitive to impressions...
Página 117 - Nothing can live by itself or for itself; everything lives in the whole; and the whole continually sacrifices itself to itself in order to live anew. This is the law of life. Whatever has come to the consciousness of existence must fall a victim to the progress of all existence. Only there is a difference whether you are dragged to the shambles like a beast with bandaged eyes, or whether, in full and joyous presentiment of the life which will spring forth from your sacrifice, you offer yourself freely...
Página 146 - The romantic form of art destroys the completed union of the Idea and its reality, and recurs, though in a higher phase, to that difference and antagonism of two aspects which was left unvanquished by symbolic art.
Página 105 - A rule of one art, or a law of one organization, holds true throughout nature. So intimate is this Unity, that, it is easily seen, it lies under the undermost garment of nature, and betrays its source in Universal Spirit.