I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their suff… - Heinrich Heine

Der Tod, der trennet nicht, der Tod vereinigt,
Das Leben ist's, was uns gewaltsam trennt.

Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen

He always maintained that we fear something because we recognize it as fearsome through rational inferences, and that only the reason had any power; the heart had none. While I ate well and drank well, he kept demonstrating to me the advantages of reason... In striving after the positive, the poor man had argued away all life's splendour, all the sunbeams, all the faith and all the flowers, leaving nothing but the cold, positive grave.