You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.
A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.
It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.
The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.
This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones.
I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.
Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.
If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.
If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!
It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.
The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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