I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.

Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.

Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.

What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

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

Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.