Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

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.

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.

A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.

The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.