If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

German diligence is actually endurance.

Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.