The ignorant knows nothing, the party member does not want to know anything.
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
Chance is necessity hidden behind a veil.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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