Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

One never perishes through anybody but oneself.

Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.