People's fates are simplified by their names.

It doesn’t matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

In the hierarchy of man’s activities, eating was the lowest. Eating had become the object of a cult, but in fact it was but the preliminary to other, utterly contemptible motions. It occurred to him that he wanted to perform one of these too.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open arms into their misfortune?

How unfair, he thought; I can close my mouth whenever I like, as tight as I like, and what has a mouth to say? It is there for taking in nourishment, yet it is well defended, but ears – ears are a prey to every onslaught.

The planet’s survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Ionako ne postoji oskudica u osrednjim glavama.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind.