Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.

The woman who loves always smells good.

And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. It is the vital ocean in which we all share, according to our strength, our needs or our desires.

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time

To know what everyone knows is to know nothing.

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.

An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.