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.
In art as in life the valid sacrifices are those that bring no income.
There are things that don't deserve to be said briefly.
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
Theories pass. The frog remains.
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.
What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up?
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.
Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
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.
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.
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