The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation.

There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?