Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

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.

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