In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.

Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.