The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious. |
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions. |
The obligation to endure gives us the right to know |
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. |
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. |
Theories pass. The frog remains. |
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past. |
Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us. |
To be adult is to be alone |
To hate fatigues. |
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should. |
To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts. |
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few |
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it |
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds. |