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.
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.
Love is being stupid together.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
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.
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.
History is the science of things which are not repeated.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.
Peace is a virtual mute sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds.
Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This ... is a precious gift.
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
At times I think and at times I am.