The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.
The difference between more or less intelligent men is like the difference between criminals condemned to life imprisonment in smaller or larger cells. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell.