A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in. |
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it |
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. |
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time. |
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time. |
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become. |
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued |
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said |
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said |
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind. |
God, that checkroom of our dreams. |
God, that dumping ground of our dreams. |
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness. |
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan. |
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books. |