A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.

The clear and safe path leads evermore into stagnation

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

Humans are almost always lonely.