When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.

As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.

Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.

The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.

He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.