Minds with fixed ideas are like granite: They can never be penetrated with soft words and gentle persuasions.
My dear friend, to be both powerful and fair has always been difficult for mankind. Power and justice have always been seen like day and night; this being the case, when one of them is there the other disappears.
A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up into the air.
Religion now has degenerated and it has turned into a wolf; it has opened its mouth to show his ugly teeth; its spreading fear instead of love; and science has hidden in a corner like a lamb, trembling with fear!
History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.
It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right.
I’m saying that the leaders of the church have locked the sacred cow called science in the stable and they won’t let anybody enter; they should open it immediately so that we can milk that cow in the name of humanity and thus find the truth.
The ‘stream’ we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advance...
It’s very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract t...
For a child, parents’ warning is like a rose blooming in the brain; it opens with difficulty and fades quickly.
A writer should show the silver in his hands neither as bronze nor as gold; the gist of the matter is to show silver as silver.
No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.
Like a broken vase does not fear of breaking once more, my broken heart is not affected by your hurting words anymore!
You see only the cat’s paw, Signor Tartini, whereas I see the sharp claws hidden in that paw!.. Women are like fire; they warm you from afar, and when you enter into them they burn you to ashes!
For an apple you can’t reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won’t bend down for you!
Oh, William, what pitiable creatures we men are! When we go to church we make the devil angry, when we enjoy ourselves in the inns, we make God angry; we are the unlucky lot stuck between two fires!
Where adventure begins, boring life ends; where adventure ends, boring life begins!
There is a road which leads to all roads. The name of that road is adventure!
If there is no adventure in your life, it is as if you live no life! Adventure is the real soul of man; without it, He is a stub!
Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom.
