When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.

History is the zoology of the human race.

Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.

Never expect any recognition here--the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross.

Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.

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