"The utter childishness of our provincial public's verdict upon any art-manifestation that may chance to make its firs…"

"I had translated the first twelve books of the Odyssey. For a while I learnt English also, merely so as to gain an ac…"

"Germany appeared in my eyes a very tiny portion of the earth. I had emerged from abstract Mysticism, and I learnt a l…"

"The July Revolution took place; with one bound I became a revolutionist, and acquired the conviction that every decen…"

"It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews … …"

"I believe in God; and Mozart, and Beethoven as his only sons."

"The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the E…"

"Recently, while I was in the street, my eye was caught by a poulterer's shop; I stared unthinkingly at his piled-up w…"

"The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human v…"

"Though physiologists are still divided as to whether Man was meant by Nature to feed exclusively on fruits, or also u…"