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  • A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
  • To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
  • We know we are on the wrong track, but we are compensating for this shortcoming by accelerating.
    • Cited by Hermann Scheer in his book Energy Autonomy
  • The exit is usually where the entrance was.
  • What limps – moves.
pl: Co kuleje – idzie.
  • In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
  • The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.
  • Even a glass eye can see its blindness.
  • To whom should we marry Freedom, to make it multiply?
  • I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
  • You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
  • Optimists and pessimists differ only on the date of the end of the world.
  • If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?
  • If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.
  • Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
  • The first condition of immortality is death.
  • The first symptom of death is birth.
pl: Pierwszym objawem śmierci są narodziny.
  • Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?
  • Beyond each corner new directions lie in wait.