We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.