Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.