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A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish.
Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.
Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.
The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.
What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.
An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.
If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.
The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.
My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself!
The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.
My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more.
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.
There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one.
Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.
All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.
The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices
It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote to a lot of profound thought to details.
What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.
Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.
Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.
The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.
Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.