The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be.

As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.

The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.

The people rate strength before everything.

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.