Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.

Many of the Nazis were convicted after the war, but they were not convicted for being 'unreasonable'. They were convicted for being gruesome murderers.

All beauty that surrounds us must one day perish.

Every single morning I wake with a bang,' he said. 'It's as though the fact that I am alive is injected into me; I am a character in a fairytale, bursting with life.

Wisest is she who knows she does not know.

Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.