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

Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.