The Mystics have almost
all a bias towards poetry and the fine arts;
their ideas are in accord with true superiority
of every sort, while and worldly-
minded mediocrity is its enemy :--that me-
diocrity cannot endure those who wish to
penetrate into the soul: as it has put its best
qualities on the surface, to touch the core
is to discover its wretchedness.
all a bias towards poetry and the fine arts;
their ideas are in accord with true superiority
of every sort, while and worldly-
minded mediocrity is its enemy :--that me-
diocrity cannot endure those who wish to
penetrate into the soul: as it has put its best
qualities on the surface, to touch the core
is to discover its wretchedness.
Madame de Stael - Germany