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

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

Who could deny that our Austria is richer than any other country? As the saying goes: "We have money like manure.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.