Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

Paradoxes are the only truths.

To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.