Generally speaking, we can and should say everything. We just have to choose the right time, otherwise the truth can be worse than a lie.

Great knowledge brings great sorrow.

That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures.

Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.

Generally speaking, we can and should say everything. We just have to choose the right time, otherwise the truth can be worse than a lie.

An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres. The time came when every book was cast into the fire, when every symphony was reduced to a popular tune and played in all the drinking dens. A sound philosophical basis could be set in place under any vile nonsense.

There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder!