In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
I don't know much about being a millionaire, but i'll bet i'd be darling at it.
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epoch, it is the rule.
Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.