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

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.

My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself!

We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.