Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

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.

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.