“ [T]hat mutual jealousy, that intolerantly keen edge of criticism, that irrational hunger for a beautiful perfection, that life and wisdom do presently and most mercifully dull. H.G. Wells
“ There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit… Arthur Schopenhauer
“ Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. Albert Einstein