Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.

Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.