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.

Learning is the art of ignoring.

The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind

A head full of stars, just not in constellation yet.

Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.

It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.

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