No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.

To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.

During my time in the camps, I had got to know the enemies of the human race quite well: they respect the big fist and nothing else; the harder you slug them, the safer you will be.

As the fathers live, so the children play.

All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.

... that maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything!

On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility. We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life. In the East, it is destroyed by the dealings and machinations of the ruling party. In the West, commercial interests tend to suffocate it. This is the real crisis.