Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. |
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. |
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth. |
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god |
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god |
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it. |
One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void. |
Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.. |
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. |
Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that. |
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood / we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we. |
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are. |
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to. |
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. |
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same. |