HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.

We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know.

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has never known. Its object is form, a new German reality, in which the whole nation will share.

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

Powerful imaginations are conservative.

Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.

First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

Powerful imaginations are conservative.

The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.

Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything.

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has never known. Its object is form, a new German reality, in which the whole nation will share.

Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know.