Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.