No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.

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.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.