Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend had better remain unwritten. They would at least never become works of art.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it thatthis has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?