These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.

If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.

One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.

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

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.