At times I think and at times I am. |
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. |
Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. |
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. |
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false. |
A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others. |
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. |
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder. |
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. |
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. |
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. |
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh. |
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. |
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. |
A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. |