If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Don't go looking at me like that because you'll wear your eyes out.

Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.