I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my auditors. You see, there is one very good thing about mankind; the mediocre masses make very few demands of the mediocrities of a higher order, submitting stupidly and cheerfully to their guidance

Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

I love the majesty of human suffering.