The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.

Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?

Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.

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