I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.

German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.