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

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.

Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.

The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.