If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

I think I am slowly becoming an anarchist, that this is only another label for my privateness, and I think that you will understand this in the sense of being against collectivity.

Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end...

Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe.

If Sun were to hand the management of Java over to a committee of monkeys, would it be more successful?

Moscow is simply unwilling to recognize the right of self-determination of nations.

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

Hard roads are not opened by themselves; they are opened by some brave people!

Perhaps there really are occasions in life when it’s best not to say anything.

The most important thing in a man is not what he knows, but what he is.

I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.