The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.

Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.

My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

To hit someone means to adopt his point of view.