If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?

Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality.

I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over.

Art gives man a reminder that he is not just a consumer but a creator as well. It awakens in him the urge to struggle and perform great deeds; it fills him with the craving to pass on the Promethean fire to generations to come.

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.

The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.