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

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

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

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

When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones.

I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.