The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.

Was that life? Well then, once more!

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.

Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief that there is a God arose and how this belief acquired its weight and importance: a counter-proof that there is no God thereby becomes superfluous.- When in former times one had refuted the 'proofs of the existence of God' put forward, there always remained the doubt whether better proofs might not be adduced than those just refuted: in those days atheists did not know how to make a clean sweep.