We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.

I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.