Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.

The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.

Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.

If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity.

Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.