I am almost equal to a shadow.

The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.

He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.

Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?