What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation.

The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

It's actually the spirit helping the spirit; it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.