Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.

There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain

Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--

Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.