What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

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

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.