If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.

The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.

science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in fact, the work of specific individuals; but, save perhaps for rare exceptions, the value of any result depends on such a complex set of interrelations with past discoveries and possible future researches that even the mind of the inventor cannot embrace the whole.