Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.

We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.