No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

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

It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.

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

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify themselves by saying that they invented new rules of propriety according to which they are quite well- behaved.