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

Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?

Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.

In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.