Ich kann freilich nicht sagen, ob es besser werden wird wenn es anders wird; aber so viel kann ich sagen, es muß anders werden, wenn es gut werden so… - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

Un libro es como un espejo: si un mono se asoma a él no puede ver reflejado a un apóstol. Carecemos de palabras para hablar con los tontos de sabiduría. Ya es sabio quien entiende a un sabio.

Wouldn't things look much better for the human race if we no longer had history, at least no political history? The human being then would act more in accordance with the energies he possesses at any given time; for as things stand today, the example that now and then makes one person better makes a thousand others worse.