That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had touched a problem, and while supposing he had solved it, he had created and obstacle to its solution. Now, with every new knowledge we stumble over flint-like and petrified words and, in so doing, break a leg sooner than a word.

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.