Best quotes from Fathers and sons

We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.

Death's an old joke but it comes fresh to everyone.

Death's an old story, but new for each person.

Nowadays we laugh at medicine altogether.

It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

He was ashamed of his own haughtiness, of his failure.

I'm incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn't want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I'd never experienced it.

I don't see why it's impossible to express everything that's on one's mind.

A single human specimen is sufficient to judge of all by.

He has no faith in principles, but he has faith in frogs.