Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois

Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

Then they wondered if there were men in the stars. Why not? And as creation is harmonious, the inhabitants of Sirius ought to be huge, those of Mars middle-sized, those of Venus very small. Unless it is the same everywhere. There are businessmen, police up there; people trade, fight, dethrone their kings.
Some shooting stars suddenly slid past, describing a course in the sky like the parabola of a monstrous rocket.
‘My Word,’ said Bouvard, ‘look at those worlds disappearing.’
Pecuchet replied: ‘If our world in its turn danced about, the citizens of the stars would be no more impressed than we are now. Ideas like that are rather humbling.’
‘What is the point of it all?’
‘Perhaps there isn’t a point.’
‘Yet…’ and Pecuchet repeated the word two or three times, without finding anything more to say.