Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.

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

Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.

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

How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

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?

Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy.