Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce

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Too fair to worship, too divine to love

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If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tragic catastrophes by means of the creations it offers to our contemplation and enjoyment, it is the art of music which conducts us to the final summit of that ascent to freedom

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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue

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No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet