God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.
To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.