There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. - Anton Chekhov

There are people whom even children’s literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.

Translation: How easy it is, Doctor, to be a philosopher on paper, and how hard it is in life!

When a person doesn’t understand something, he feels internal discord: however he doesn’t search for that discord in himself, as he should, but searches outside of himself. Thence a war develops with that which he doesn’t understand.