“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?”

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

“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.”

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

“Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.”

“All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all of which limit it to a fake learnedness.”