"Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.”

“If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.”

“Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.”

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

“It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.”

“We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!”

“...the reason for [this age's] anxiety and unrest is because in one direction, 'truth' increases in scope and quantity - via science and technology - while in the other, certainty and confidence steadily decline. Our age is a master in developing truths while being wholly indifferent to certitude. It lacks confidence in the good.”

“No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.”

“All action begins in rest... This is the ultimate truth.”