The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.
It is good insofar as it is not evil.
There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity.
Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.
The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify themselves by saying that they invented new rules of propriety according to which they are quite well- behaved.
The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.
The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
Who could deny that our Austria is richer than any other country? As the saying goes: "We have money like manure.
Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.
Servants honor their master by their service.
Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.
Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.
The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.
German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.
Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
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