"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.

What the father kept silent the son speaks out.

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.