Ground the coursing of flocks run wild.
Truly times must be out of joint, when only asses have any power of action left, and those who have a little more intelligence use it to doubt everything, and to persuade themselves that it is not wor...
Sometimes I have thought that human misery goes far beyond human imagination,—imagination has its limits, and misery, like the vast seas, appears to be without end.
He who is a sceptic in regard to faith, in regard to science, conservatism, progress, and so on, has indeed difficulty in finding anything to do. In
¡Qué sociedad!-A tal sociedad, tal César.[...]
¿Es ésta la nueva doctrina desconocida? Todo el mundo sabe eso: todo el mundo lo ha escuchado antes. Los cínicos han recomendado la pobreza y la restricción de las necesidades; Sócrates ha prescrito l...
Thoughts like mine are not reckoned among the delights of life. It is like the dog trying to catch his tail; he does not catch anything. I do not prove anything, only tire myself; but have the satisfa...
The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie. They were like two old men with bald heads pressed between the s...
The evil genius bent upon wrecking my life had not taken in account one thing: a man crushed and utterly wretched cares less for himself than a happy one. In presence of that indifference fate becomes...
It appears to me that many cultured people are attacked by the same disease. Criticism of ourselves and everything else is corroding our active power; we have no stable basis, no point of issue, no fa...
If you consider yourself a superior type, or even if you be such, let me tell you that the sum total of such superiority, is socially, a minus quantity. I
Gdybym istotnie przy tej jałowiźnie, przy tej niemocy czynu, posiadał nawet genialne zdolności, to byłbym jakimś szczególnym rodzajem geniusza bez teki.
Моето щастие мина, и радостта ми отмина, но аз не съм зла.
Светът е измамен, а животът е илюзия. Трябва да имаш достатъчно ум за да различиш приятните от лошите илюзии.
Mandassero con lei il suo seguito, il
I still seem to hear Sniatynski's words: Do not philosophize her away, as you have philosophized away your abilities and your thirty-five years of life. I know it leads to nothing, I know it is wrong,...
I have noticed that the stoutest pessimists, when fate or men try to take something out of their lives, fight tooth and nail, and cry out as loud as the greatest optimists.
Hamlet is the human soul as it was, as it is, and as it will be. In conceiving this drama, Shakspeare overstepped the limit fixed even for genius. I can understand Homer and Dante, studied by the ligh...
A potem, wyciągnąwszy swój różowy paluszek, dotknęła nim białej jedwabnej jaki Zbyszkowej i cofając go natychmiast zapytała: — A jutro też będzie mój?
Walking along the avenues, we had one of the so-called intellectual conversations, which consist a great deal in quoting names of books and authors.