Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff in his voyage through life; comm….

The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first ….

Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as good as another, sin….

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an enti….

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds..

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end..

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy..

Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only..

To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-….

Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that sc….

An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself..

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it..

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love..

Art is the accomplice of love..

Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves..

Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called..

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life..

Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species..

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever ….