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

It is good insofar as it is not evil.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

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

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.