Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.

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

Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.

Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?