If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.

I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.

They think we’re intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don’t want them to learn the truth.” Rachel

Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

The power of the visible is the invisible.

All light is available light.

I don't want to age myself.

Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.