Jan GreshoffThinkers

Aphorism is the slight amendment of wisdom.

Censorship is a nasty expression of fear.

Donation is a confession of guilt.

An Idealist is someone who harbors the dangerous illusion that the lies he tells are better than those of his neighbor:more beautiful and more effective.

Intolerance is the alibi for the poor of mind.

Knowledge is distinguished from understanding: In the world of earlier times people were striving to understand; in ours, they want to know.

Living is tottering around an overcrowded station from which no train ever leaves, waiting for the train that never arrives.

Love is a drop of rose-oil dumped in a sewer.

Love is the only game in which cheating forms part of the rules.

Optimism is an aggressive form of superficiality.

Poetry is a musical expression of silence.

Poetry is the fifth point of the compass.