It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

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.

We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring.

End of the SummerIt was end of the summerAnd my heart was brokenbut i was smiling, laughing, making jokesLike there was nothing bleeding insideAs always.

You can't look stupid if you're having fun.

What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.

Chance favours a prepared mind.

The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.

I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.

Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun." "We are ugly.

If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.