The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.

Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.