"Mankind is not a circle with a..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“The ox suffers, the cart complains.”

“The sewer is the conscience of the city.”

“Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.”

“All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.”

“I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.”

“I tell the truth through music. Other people tend to catch on and agree with my truth and it turns out we are all really similar.”

“Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal.”

“I get all my ideas in Switzerland near the Forka Pass. There is a little town called Gletch, and two thousand feet up above Gletch there is a smaller hamlet called Über Gletch. I go there on the fourth of August every summer to get my cuckoo clock fixed. While the cuckoo is in the hospital, I wander around and talk to the people in the streets. They are very strange people, and I get my ideas from them.”

“What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person”