Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.