“These trumpeters of reality are bad musicians.”

“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. ”

“A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.”

“The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.”

“Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”

“In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.”

“Plato's objection to the older art--that it is the imitation of a phantom and hence belongs to a sphere even lower than the empirical world--could certainly not be directed against the new art; and so we find Plato endeavoring to transcend reality and to represent the idea which underlies this pseudo-reality.”