You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

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

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything, through my infidelity.

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.