Get up very early and get going at once. In fact, work first and wash afterwards.

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is, as the only possible verdicts we can pass on a book are two: this I like; this I don't like. For an adult reader, the possible verdicts are five: I can see this is good and I like it; I can see this is good but I don't like it; I can see this is good and, though at present I don't like it, I believe that with perseverance I shall come to like it; I can see that this is trash but I like it; I can see that this is trash and I don't like it.

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.