The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.

The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

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

I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense....

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.