It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

What is not in nature can never be true.

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.