Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying. |
The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic. |
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. |
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all. |
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. |
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. |
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. |
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long. |
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. |
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. |
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. |
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. |
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. |
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time. |
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. |
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. |
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. |
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. |
An index is a great leveller. |
The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves. |