At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.

A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all.