"... for an oriental philologist who undertook the study of art history was not seen as fully respectable, and an art …"

"The discovery of Iran was only the first step toward a much greater surprise: I recognized that something stood behin…"

"Even the threads that bind pre-Hellenic and archaic art to that of the people of the Levant have been much more energ…"

"He ranks high among the professors of the University of Vienna in the fifteenth century. In the struggles which it ha…"

"It is clear that for Herbert Hunger, Byzantium was not an exotic phenomenon in the historical and political self-awar…"

"Both the peacock and the chicken passed through [Mesopotamia] on their way westward[;] the Sumerians called the chick…"

"Die Kunst ist es, etwas nicht klar auszusprechen, es aber trotzdem unmissverständlich mitzuteilen."

"Es geht nicht darum, das Leben perfekt zu machen, sondern um die Erkenntnis, dass es das nicht ist."

"Das Glück ist rund und schwer darauf zu stehen."

"Weil nämlich nichts auf der Welt so unzufrieden macht wie Klugheit, also ist es besser man bleibt dumm."