Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.

Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.