A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

The main thing is to know something and to say it.

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

Tests were always easy for me. I saw them as games, saw myself as being in a contest against a mythical adversary, and welcomed the challenge.

In the name of all that is holy, please consider the wages of a particular profession before you select that degree plan.

There is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas.

That's what I like about watching a movie: you enter an imagined world that's more interesting, more engaging than your own. Or less painful than your own.

My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.

The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.

My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.

Your truth really can't be twisted. It is what it is. That doesn't mean that a person can't develop and change and reinterpret their life.