An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.