As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

Servants honor their master by their service.

A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

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

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.