The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.

No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

German diligence is actually endurance.

How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.