The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.

Servants honor their master by their service.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

It's actually the spirit helping the spirit; it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.

Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.