Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.