What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
