"All our knowledge is symbolic...." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“One must keep repeating the Truth.”

“On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.”

“The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.”

“We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.”

“When two friends are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more dialectical,' I mean not only that we give real responses, but that we base our responses solely on what the interlocutor admits that he himself knows.”

“Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.”

“We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.”

“I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.”

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”