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- Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
- After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
- I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
- An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
- The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
- Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
- You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.
- Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
- All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
- The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
- Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
- There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
- Every man’s memory is his private literature.
- To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
- I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
- We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
- Experience teaches only the teachable.
- Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
- There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
- The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
- I can sympathize with people’s pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.
- Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
- Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
- But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
- When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.
- Two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.