Better know nothing than half-know many things.

The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.

Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.

THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.

You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.