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

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.