There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments , but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path.

To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.