Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved; for the god was in the one but not in the other - perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows.

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