History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again.

For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.

The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand!

Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once.

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.

We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

Wake up with a smile and go after life.... Live it enjoy it taste it smell it feel it.

Faith is the soul's adventure.

It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.

We can hope that the responsibilities and realities will weigh on Donald Trump and he will not be the president we fear, but rather something more stable.

No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by virtue of his humanity.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

Swallow the stars until you are one with the universe, with all-pervading universal life.

Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.