There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.
I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.
As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not! I believe you have never written to order, by the yard, and have never experienced that hellish torture.
For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?
Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.
They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.
Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window.
Let us be servants in order to be leaders.
There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.
Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?
You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.
To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.
There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.
Realists do not fear the results of their study.