26 quotes found
“Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.”
“The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.”
“Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.”
“The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.”
“Intelligence is perhaps but a malady, -a beautiful malady; the oysters's pearl.”
“The greater part of a men who speak ill of women are speaking of a certain woman.”
“It is not perhaps a question of truthfulness; it is rather a natural incapacity to think for herself, to take cognizance of herself in her own brain, and not in the eyes and in the lips of others; ...”
“To have a solid foundation of skepticism, -that is to say, the faculty of changing at any moment, of turning back, of facing successively the metamorphoses of life.”
“Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as good as another, since the end obtained is always the same. In any c...”
“Abstractions do us much harm by impelling us to the quest of the absolute in all things. Joy does not exist, but there are joys: and these joys may not be folly felt unless they are detached from n...”
“Everything, indeed, in a work of art should be unedited,--and even the words, by the manner of grouping them, of shaping them to new meanings,--and one often regrets having an alphabet familiar to ...”
“It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity.”
“And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. It is the vital ocean in which we all share, acco...”
“Nothing returns, nothing begins anew; it is never the same thing, and yet it seems always the same. For, if the days never return, every moment brings forth new beings whose destiny it will be to c...”
“Deprived of the infinite, man has become what he always was: a supernumerary. He hardly counts; he forms part of the troupe called Humanity; if he misses a cue, he is hissed; and if he drops throug...”
“The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, & that's all. It is thus that we should love.”
“Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him. ”
“Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.”
“The vainglory of wishing to understand is dangerous, immoral and, above all, old-fashioned. The modern way perhaps the final way - is to say: Go forward, without knowing why, as quickly as possibl...”
“As a matter of fact, when it comes to seeing, men display two tendencies: they see what they wish to see, what is useful to them, what is agreeable. The second is the tendency toward inhibition; th...”
“It appears, from all this, that our eyes are uncertain. Two persons look at the same clock and there is a difference of two or three minutes in their reading of the time. One has a tendency to put ...”
