In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wants woman to be peaceable--but woman is essentially, like the cat, not peaceable, however well she may have trained herself to assume the appearance of peace.

The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!