If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

Not all that counts, can be counted

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

Dear Habicht, / Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential babble... / What are you up to, you frozen whale, you smoked, dried, canned piece of soul...?

But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.