It's very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves.

Poverty must be eliminated or else the honour of humanity will vanish!

Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction

No good end exists for any dictator!

The clever cannot catch the genius; such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!

Walk at the edge of the precipices! It is the best way to learn walking carefully!

If you don't like an idea, put another idea against it! If you use your fist against an idea that you don't like, you only prove how horribly primitive you are!