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

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

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

The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.