“For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.”

“God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight. ”

“I do not know how to make a distinction between tears and music”

“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”

“Everything straight lies,' murmured the dwarf disdainfully. 'All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.”

“Honor to the government, and obedience, and also to the crooked government! So desires good sleep. How can I help it, if power likes to walk on crooked legs?”

“Knowing one's 'individuality'. - We are too prone to forget that in the eyes of people who are seeing us for the first time we are something quite different from what we consider ourselves to be: usually we are nothing more than a single individual trait which leaps to the eye and determines the whole impression that we make.”