The only thing I know is that I know nothing
Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you.
If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.
The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.
In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents itself as the Unmanageable, the Illogical, the Meaningless.
To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot. But I am persuaded that such behavior on the part of the representatives of religion would not only be unworthy but also fatal. For a doctrine which is able to maintain itself not in clear light, but only in the dark, will of necessity lose its effect on mankind, with incalculable harm to human progress.
Do people ever get over being shy? I think it’s with you for life-like the color of your eyes.
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice.