“We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.”
“Every man's memory is his private literature.”
“Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”
“We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.”
“It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.”
“Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.”
“Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”
“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.”
“Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.”
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
“Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.”
“Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.”
“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.”
“Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.”
“Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.”
“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”
“People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!”
“The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.”
“Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.”
“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”
“What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.”
“Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hall-mark of true science.”
“That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.”
“There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.”
“Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.”
“A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.”
“It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.”
“Science has ''explained'' nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”
“Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.”
“The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.”