There are only two days on my calendar... today and the day of judgment
Reason is the enemy of faith.
I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other
We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see as little at midday as in the pitch-dark night. We do not take these examples to heart; we do not realize that today or tomorrow our turn will come.
At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its centre. 'Tis the devils kept prisoner there.