No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

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

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

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.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.