And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Just as soon as we notice that someone has to force himself to pay attention when dealing and talking with us, we have a valid demonstration that he does not love us or that he does not love us anymore.

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence