So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.

They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?

I am the Spirit that denies.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.