"By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life."

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

"Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means."

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

"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."