Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.

I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.