A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.

One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.