[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.

Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.

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

Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.

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

I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.

The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.