Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.

Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.

The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.