I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.

Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.

From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.

I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.