When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.

It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

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

If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall.