The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of official gentlemen, living luxurious lives, mostly stupid, and all without imagination or heart, have chosen that it should occur rather than that any one of them should suffer some infinitesimal rebuff to his country`s pride.

Africans had to be taught that nudity is wicked; this was done very cheaply by missionaries.

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.