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

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jews nonetheless.

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

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.