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

Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.

Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!