You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?

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

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

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 wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.