In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.

Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief