Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

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.

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.