If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.

Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.