Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

Never expect any recognition here--the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross.

As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.

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

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