What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it….

Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most bac….

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means..

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scrap….

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything..

The real hero is always a hero by mistake..

The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings..

Given that there are seven billion people living on this earth, there is a consistent quantity of imbecile or idiot, okay. Previously, these people c….

All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as….

To survive, you must tell stories..

Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart..

Every great thinker is someone else's moron..

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big..

Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For….

Love is wiser than wisdom..

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them..

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective..

Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a g….

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four..