Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.

The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.

The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.

Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.