Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?

Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.

Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.

The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.