We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

One does not kill by anger but by laughter.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.