“Die Aufgabe des Künsters in einer gestörten Gesellschaft besteht darin, Bewusstsein für das Universum zu schaffen, die richtigen Fragen zu stellen und den Geist zu heben.”
“And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?”