Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.

A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.