Heine on Kant

Heine on the influence of Kant on Germany:

"Kant gave a great impulse to their minds, less by the depth of his writings than by the critical spirit which reigned over them, that came to be introduced in all the arts and sciences...Schiller, for example, was a powerful Kantian, and his artistic writings are impregnated with the spirit of Kant's philosophy. Belles-lettres and the fine arts were replete with the abstract dryness of this philosophy.

Happily, it never caught on in cooking."