You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.

I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.

Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.

There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf