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