The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

Only sick music makes money today.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling. Women are the same with their lovers.

It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.

Love, too, has to be learned.

Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.