The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.

I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?

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