The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Keep your mind free and independent even when someone wants to imprison your body.

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and new Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries

The soft power of science has the potential to reshape global diplomacy.

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

unfortunately, we're all out of bitter evange at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing

There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.

Capitalism, communism ... it's all garbage.

I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost.

A soft word pacifies anger, and the discordant words break the harmony of the cosmic diapason, and generate disorders.