Everybody's friend is nobody's.

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.

Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what we compare it to - better and we envious and sad, worse and we feel grateful and happy.

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.