to live means to lack something at every moment

In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry.

An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.

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

Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.