When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low.
The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.
The real genres: good and bad.
Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.
Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
German diligence is actually endurance.
Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.
North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.
It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.
Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.
Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.
Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.
Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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