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.

He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?

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

It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.

A person often falls very ill in order to become someone else and then returns to health much disappointed.

People's fates are simplified by their names.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight