What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

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

The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.