Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great

Every true reader could, even if not one new book were published, spend decades and centuries studying on, fighting on, continuing to rejoice in the treasure of those already at hand.

Love knows all paths, where even gods and cats are blind.

Hey, don't stick that tongue out, unless you're gonna use it.

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

It's always good when you can bring two artists together who are totally different.

The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.

If you're waiting for inspiration, you'll wait until you're dead.

This is one image. This is one moment. This is one statement. ARTPOP

Surrender the dream and the truth will be revealed.

When I make a dress that someone wants to put on and somebody else wants to take off, then I know I've got it right. Because when someone looks good on the outside, they'll feel good on the inside.