The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.

There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.