A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.

German diligence is actually endurance.

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 certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.

German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!