... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter, whereas, it too, like everything else, is but an embroidery of voids in the Void, and we give the name of being, dense and even eternal, to that dance of inconsistencies, that infinite extension that is identified with absolute Nothingness and that spins from its own non-being the illusion of everything.

Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.