Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.

A love that dies has never lived.

The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!

From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.