Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.

What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance.

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that.

Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.