You can be sincere and still be stupid.

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.

People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.