The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
The worth of a gift lies as much in the way it is offered as in its intrinsic value.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
Dream in a pragmatic way.
The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.
Mon Dieu, la vie est par trop moche.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know one must be an actor as well as a sp...
Every ceiling when reached becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.