Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.

The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.