We're only really thinking when we can't think out fully what we are really thinking about!

Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.

By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.

The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.