 Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. |
| All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. |
| What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. |
| All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. |
| The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. |
| War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. |
| There are no facts, only interpretations. |
| To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity. |
| Women are quite capable of entering into a friendship with a man, but to keep it going that takes a little physical antipathy as well. |
| An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris. |
| There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He. |
| Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company. |
| We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us. |
| Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. |
| The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. |
| Love is not consolation. It is light. |
| When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began. |
| Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. |
| A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. |
| If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. |
