A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Love is being stupid together.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
History is the science of things which are not repeated.
To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Conscience reigns but it does not govern.
Power without abuse loses its charm.
At times I think and at times I am.
Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This ... is a precious gift.