Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.

You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

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.

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