After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

A secret is powerful when it is empty.

A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.

An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.

Given that there are seven billion people living on this earth, there is a consistent quantity of imbecile or idiot, okay. Previously, these people could express themselves only with their friends or at the bar after two or three glasses of something, and they said every silliness, and people laughed. Now they have the possibility to show up on the internet. And so, on the internet, along with the messages of a lot of interesting and important people - even the Pope is writing on Twitter - we have a great quantity of idiots.

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.