It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.

What's the use of money if you have to earn it.