"I am a German, and I love my country."

"I have been a scientist, and I have sought to understand the mysteries of the universe."

"God gives every animal the means of saving its life—why object if he gives astrology to the astronomer?"

"Repudiating the sensible world, which he neither sees himself nor believes from those who have, the Peripatetic joins combat by childish quibbling in a world on paper, and denies the Sun shines becaus…"

"I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel."