"The tragedy of the modern world is that it is too full of meaning and too empty of life."

"The essence of art is that it creates a world that is more real than reality."

"The tragic element of culture is that the objective spirit, once created, comes to stand over and against the subjective spirit, whose expression it is, and ultimately crushes it."

"The deeper one goes into the individual, the more one finds society."

"The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations."