Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.

Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn.

Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

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.