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

Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

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

Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

Women, children, Tyroleans and preachers want to create a new kingdom of God, but the God of their kingdom looks like women, children, preachers, and Tyrolians.

What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.