Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.

In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.

There is always some madness in love.

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.