If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.

Science is a collection of successful recipes.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

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.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.