“The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.”
“A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.”
“God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.”
“To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.”
“Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.”
“Power without abuse loses its charm.”
“A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.”
“A man who is ‘of sound mind’ is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.”
“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.”
“The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.”
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
“Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.”
“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.”
“At times I think and at times I am.”
“We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.”
“The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.”
“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”
“God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.”
“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.”
“Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.”
“Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.”
“That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.”
“War: a massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don’t massacre each other.”
“Man’s great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.”
“The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.”
“Love is being stupid together.”
“Politeness is organized indifference.”
“A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.”
“History is the science of things which are not repeated.”
“A man’s true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.”
“In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.”
“Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.”
“Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.”
“That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.”
“A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.”
“The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.”
“Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.”
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