This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

We must cultivate our own garden.

When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.

A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.