18 quotes found
“Une philosophie doit etre portative.”
“Life blackens at the contact of truth.”
“Consciousness reigns but doesn't govern.”
“Poems are never finished - just abandoned”
“Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.”
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
“God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly”
“God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.”
“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 th...”
“Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people.”
“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...”
“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.”
“What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.”
“The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.”
“Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.”
“Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.”
“What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.”
“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 in a series ...”
