Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

Youth is just wasted on young people.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.