Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

Never expect any recognition here--the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross.

Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.

The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.

Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.