Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.

You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.