Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation; for if people knew the sources of the artist's inspiration, that knowledge would often confuse them, alarm them, and thereby destroy the effects of excellence. strange hours! strangely enervating labor! bizarrely fertile intercourse of the mind with a body!

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

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.