The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.

All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

Fairy tales are more than true.

The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate modern thinkers, and the second in which he desires to watch them exterminating each other. ... Suppose, for instance, there is an old story and a new skeptic who is skeptical of the story. We have only to wait a little while for a yet newer skeptic who is skeptical of the skeptic. He will probably find the old notion actually a help in his new notion. This process is an abstract truth applying to anything, apart from agreement or disagreement.

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