Zitate

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

A truth which is clearly understood can no longer be written with sincerity.

In a way, the greatest praise of God is his denial by the atheist who thinks creation is so perfect it does not need a creator.

Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

A cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are necessary for the pursuit.

We find a little of everything in our memory. It is a kind of pharmacy or chemical laboratory in which chance guides our hand now to a calming drug and now to a dangerous poison.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

The one thing more difficult than following our regimen is keeping from imposing it on others.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

The only true paradises are the paradises we have lost.

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.