He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.

About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously.

The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.