The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love..

Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume..

In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a ….

Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha..

He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave..

That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people..

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews..

What lies lurk in kisses..

Oh, what lies there are in kisses..

The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above..

From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom..

In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by..

The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on; The mountain summit sparkles In the light of the setting sun..

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day..

God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even….

Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth..

The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling..

The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. Th….

Each violet peeps from its dwelling to gaze at the bright stars above..

Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so ….

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings..