Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
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.
History is the science of what never happens twice.
[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.