One can clearly see five fingers in one's own hand. One who commits himself to a sixth general entity fingerhood, side by side with the five fingers, might as well postulate horns on top of his head

- Paṇḍit Aśoka -

Ockham snorted. "I am no nominalist. The problem with teaching the Modern Way is that lesser scholars, excited by the novelty, seldom bother to master my insights. There are lips on which I heartily wish my name had never rested. I tell you, Dietl, a man becomes a heretic less for what he writes than for what others believe he has written.

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.

A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero.

I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.

Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.