It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

We no longer love our knowledge enough once we have passed it on.

Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.