“The worst sickness of men tends to originate in the sentimental way they try to combat their sicknesses. What seems like an easy cure, in the long run produces something worse than what it's supposed to overcome. Fake consolations always have to be paid for with a general and profound worsening of the original complaint.”
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
“I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.”
“The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.”
“The anthropological criminologists tell us that the typical criminal is ugly: monstrum in fronte, monstrum in animo [monstrous in appearance, monstrous in spirit].”
“It takes chaos to give birth to a dancing star”