'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap

At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.