“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.”
Death“To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.”
Faith“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.”
Death“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”
Experience“Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.”
Age“When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.”
Experience“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”
Beauty“I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.”
God“To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.”
Good“Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.”
Nature“To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.”
Famous“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”
Art“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”
Courage“The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.”
Alone“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.”
Freedom“By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.”
Government“Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.”
Love“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.”
Happiness“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
Art“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
Nature“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”
Motivational“The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”
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