How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Everywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous.

When reason fails, the devil helps!

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.