Occupation: Novelist Birth: September 29, 1864 Death: December 31, 1936
That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence..
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons..
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with ….
Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling.
My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast..
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant..
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion..
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude..
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible..
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past..
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about..
Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil..
The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity..
The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read..
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be..
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you..
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love..
The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found..
At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. A….
Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists.….
Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual").