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.