People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.