Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.