A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.

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.

Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.

To know what everyone knows is to know nothing.

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.

Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.