"Something that everyone wants to have read but no one wants to read."

"The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrad…"

"Thinking, meditating, imagining are not anomalous acts – they are the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glor…"

"I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking i…"

"People who read only the classics are sure to remain up-to-date."

"The way to become a classic is by not resembling the classics in any way."

"The neo-conservative critics of leftist critics of mass culture ridicule the protest against Bach as background music…"

"At home these men’s works [Kant, Schiller and Goethe] were kept in the bookcase with the green glass panes in Papa’s …"

"In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceas…"

"The more rigorously criticism historicizes a work of art, in the sense of lodging it in the context of the moment of …"