Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.

Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

Truth is most beautiful undraped.

Unrest is the mark of existence.

Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.