Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!

The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

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