All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.

What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.

What sort of God would it be, who only pushed from without.

I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.