All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.

We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.

Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.