in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: "My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly." This stranger is a theologian.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
How old the world is! I walk between two eternities. What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I don't want to die!
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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Poetry)
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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