 Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. |
| Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we. |
| It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls. |
| I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence. |
| A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time. |
| One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it. |
| Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt. |
| The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. |
| It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of. |
| Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. |
| Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing. |
| A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. |
| It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed. |
| One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god. |
| My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists. |
| Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. |
| To be adult is to be alone. |
| Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god. |
| We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds. |
| Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. |
