Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic |
Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there |
Man errs as long as he strives |
Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do... within the limits of his comprehension. |
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself. |
Man's greatest achievement is astonishment. |
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. |
Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose. |
Mastery is often taken for egotism |
Mastery passes often for egotism. |
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different |
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal |
Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think. |
Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not |
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable. |