All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.

[...] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.

... nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very similar to using lots of words, for the more imprecise a word is, the greater the area it covers.

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

... we engage in politics because we don't know anything. This is clearly revealed in the way we go about it. Our parties exist from a fear of theory. The voter fears that one idea can always be contradicted by another. Therefore the parties reciprocally defend themselves against the few old ideas they have inherited. They don't live from what they promise, but from frustrating the promises of others. This is their silent community of interests.