The one necessary thing.— A person must have one or the other. Either a cheerful disposition by nature, or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge.

“انسان از آغازِ وجود خودرا بسی کم شاد کرده است. برادران «گناهِ نخستین» همین است و …”

“What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphis…”

“When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.”

“The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to …”