As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.

O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!

Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.

Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.

There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.

The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.