They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.

The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.