Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation like "Goodness alive!" would be the best criticism of the most deserving work of art. There are critiques which say nothing but that, only they do so more extensively.

Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.