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

"Fame is a form—perhaps the worst form—of incomprehension."

"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."

"It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millenni…"

"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 …"

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