Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.
to live means to lack something at every moment
History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.
A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.
If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish.
Science is a collection of successful recipes.
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
Power without abuse loses its charm.
I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.
The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.
Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.
The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves, others, unable to so much as conceive of making use of it, let it waste away. Quite on the contrary, we should search for it assiduously in what we think we know best. Leaf through a dictionary or try to make one, and you will find that every word covers and masks a well so bottomless that the questions you toss into it arouse no more than an echo.
It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary.
Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
Do you not realise that dance is the pure act of metamorphosis?
What is simple is false and what is not is useless.
We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
A real writer can be recognized by the fact he doesn't find words. Therefore he must search for them and while doing that, he finds better ones.
There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one.
Love is acting stupid together.
What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.
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