The essence of all beauty is simplicity.

Our knowledge is like the surface of the ocean, vast and full of unknown depths.

The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.

Science is a collection of successful recipes.

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

We do not truly know anything; we only have our opinions.

The paradox of life is that we can see it all, but never understand it completely.

History is the science of what never happens twice.

An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.

The trouble with our age is that it is all too clear to us.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

Every beginning is a consequence – every beginning ends some thing.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

In the world of words, the imagination is always free.

An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.

We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.

Politeness is organized indifference.

The greatest art is to sit still, for the world is already full of movement.

Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Our mind is like a book, it is continually turning over new pages.

Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

It is not ideas that are dangerous, but the people who possess them.

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

What others call teaching, I call a series of questions.

Beauty is nature in perfection.

A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

We are a product of our ideas.

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

A man who is ‘of sound mind’ is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

Everything is a system, and the system is everything.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

Love is being stupid together.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

A poet is a man who lives in the world of words.

War: a massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don’t massacre each other.

If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish.