We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.
To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach.
What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.
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.
Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
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.
There are some persons we could not cut down to size without diminishing ourselves as well.
Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe.
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
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