He who truly enjoys authority is not afraid to admit his mistake.
Unfortunately, the world is built this way: fools are full of self, and smart people are full of doubt.
To die for a conviction is to place great importance on probabilities.
Knowing how to use your free time rationally - this is the highest level of civilization.
Philosophy: when you start from something so simple that it's not even worth discussing and you end up with something so paradoxical that you can't believe it.
Man is a confident being, he must believe in something, if not in good, then in bad.
Man dreams all his life. Sometimes he wakes up to reality for a moment and drowsily gazes at the world, then sinks back into a sweet dream.
Man shows his superiority over the animals, except for his ability to be boring.
The more we are talked about, the more we want to be talked about. The criminal condemned to death is allowed to read the report of his trial in the newspapers, and will be furious if he finds that any newspaper has not given enough space to his trial.
Pure mathematics is such an object where we do not know what we are talking about and we do not know whether the thing we are talking about is true.
To have a long life we must choose our ancestors very carefully.
A sense of duty is necessary for one job, but insulting in many other ways.
People want to be loved, but not to be endured out of persistent pity.
Ethics is the attempt to give great importance to some of our desires.
I have always considered respectable people to be scoundrels, and now every morning I look in the mirror to see if any trace of scoundrelness has appeared.
I like mathematics because there is nothing human about it, because it has nothing to do with our planet and our universe. Because love for her is unrequited.
I'm so busy I had to countermand my date of death.
It may be nice to die to conquer new lands, but modern warfare destroys all the things it was started for.
To be human means to feel the responsibility of everything you do.
In our universe all living things are drawn to those like them, even flowers bend to the wind mingle with each other, a swan knows all others, only humans live in isolation.
When its fullness is fulfilled, life dries up like the pod that is released from the grain.
War is not an accident. War is a disease like typhus.
Each of us feels, some more vaguely, some more clearly, that we must wake up to life. But how many wrong paths appear before us!
All our riches are dust and powder, they cannot give us those things worth living for.
There is such a firm rule: you woke up in the morning, washed, put yourself in order - immediately put your planet in order.
The animal retains its elegance even in old age. But why is the noble clay from which man is fashioned so disfigured?
The earth helps us understand ourselves like no book can. Because the earth is against us.
Only the heart is alert. The most important thing you cannot see with your eyes.
From the molten lava, from that dough from which the stars are fashioned, from the miracle that gave birth to the living cell, we humans emerged, and we rose higher and higher, step by step, and here we are writing cantatas and we measure the constellations.
Truth is that which cannot be demonstrated, truth means simplicity.