If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.

We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning.

To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.