You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.

I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.