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.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.

Love! Hate! Is there no third?

Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.