"In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge."
"The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive."
"one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood."
"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."
"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."