There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
The invention of printing and the Reformation are and remain the two outstanding services of central Europe to the cause of humanity.
The beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.
Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
Writing well was almost the same as thinking well, and thinking well was the next thing to acting well.
What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about.
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
Time cools, time clarifies, no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
The word was — civilization!
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