15 quotes found
“Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.”
“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.”
“How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over.”
“Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.”
“It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity.”
“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.”
“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...”
“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.”
“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 ...”
“Well, suppose we remain upon earth, after all? Suppose we bravely accept the death of our dreams at the same time as the death of our bodies? This beyond is decidedly uncertain, quite vague and mob...”
