A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.

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.

We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.