Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name. |
Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it. |
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. |
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream. |
He despises men with tenderness |
He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice |
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. |
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. |
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. |
I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change the hearts of men |
If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. |
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. |
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one |
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. |
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. |