[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.

Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!

The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.