Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.