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

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

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

L’histoire est le produit le plus dangereux que la chimie de l’intellect ait élaboré. Ses propriétés sont bien connues. Il fait rêver, il enivre les peuples, leur engendre de faux souvenirs, exagère leurs réflexes, entretient...

Une philosophie doit etre portative.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

God made everything out of the void, but the void shows through

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage...

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

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Power without abuse loses its charm

Everything simple is false. Everything complex is unusable.

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

The ultimate “”computer,”” our own brain, uses only ten watts of power — one-tenth the energy consumed by a hundred-watt bulb.

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

Power without abuse loses its charm.

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

Everything that is simple is theoratically false, everything that is complicated is pragmatically useless.

God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

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

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

For the fact is that disorder is the condition of the mind’s fertility: it contains the mind’s promise, since its fertility depends on the unexpected rather than the expected, depends on what we do not...

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

History is the science of what never happens twice.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly

Politeness is organized indifference.

Car j’ai vécu de vous attendre,Et mon coeur n’était que vos pas.

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences

Poems are never finished – just abandoned

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

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

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

Politeness is organized indifference

Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.

Man’s great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

Life blackens at the contact of truth.

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

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

At times I think and at times I am.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of...