Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!

Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.