The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.
Man’s great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.
Science is a collection of successful recipes.
One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn’t fall.
Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.
History is the science of what never happens twice.
Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.
Every beginning is a consequence – every beginning ends some thing.
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.
To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone – but that is all it means.
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
To penetrate one’s being, one must go armed to the teeth.
Talent without genius isn’t much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.
A man who is ‘of sound mind’ is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.