There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.