The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.

At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.