Moral concepts are useful to the extent that they provoke opposition.
A poet is a feeling, sentient being, not a word machine.
The skies give no warning when they fall.
A man swallowed a bird every day but still couldn’t fly.
Half the pain in human life comes from gazing in mirrors.
Higher education-I wonder how much longer the deception can go on.
The fog eventually clears itself.
I’d sooner worship a tree than a man or a god.
Mediocrity-the artist’s hell.
Political revolutions never liberate anyone; they are always reactionary.
No art is harder to master than believing in yourself.
Lies bewitch us, if we want to be bewitched.
Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none.
Be satisfied with who you are and take pleasure in everything you do.
What is eternal is the cloud drifting slowly out of sight.
It’s always the improbable that happens.
The greatest obstacle to true learning is the inability to say “I don’t know.
The last goose in the column is flying just as high.
Unless I speak, you won’t see me.
The person who knows how to enjoy their own company knows the best thing.