Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.
I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.
People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.
History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.