Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.