A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.