So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.

“Nevertheless, I am versed in the use of two weapons: saber and cannon — and, pe…”

“I do not believe that an “impulseto knowledge” is the father of philosophy; but…”

“At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel th…”

“It was suffering and incapacity that created all afterworlds - this, and that b…”