in Quotes & Aphorisms (Poetry)
Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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I believe in God, although I live very happily with atheists. It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God.
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Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Reason is to the philosopher what grace is to the Christian.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
The pit of a theater is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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