It is now, and in this world, that we must live.

What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.