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

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

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

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.

A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.

When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.