Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

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

Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?

Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.