Prose talks and poetry sings.

How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.

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.

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.

The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.

Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.

Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.