It is good insofar as it is not evil.

Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.

I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.

Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.

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.

The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.