The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify themselves by saying that they invented new rules of propriety according to which they are quite well- behaved.

Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.

I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.