There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

A problem is nothing more than a solution outstanding.

Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.

If ever there was a moment for an Islamic reformation, it’s now. For the love of God, what are we doing about it?

TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

There's a saying in Africa: To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.

I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago.

The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste.

Look at your life as a patient and a doctor!