Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.

In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.