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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.

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.

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.