I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall be no religion in particular.... Every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy. Its power consists in its special and surprising message and the bias which that revelation gives to life.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.