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

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

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

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.

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.