“Experience teaches only the teachable.”
“We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.”
“Every man's memory is his private literature.”
“Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”
“We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.”
“The only completely consistent people are the dead.”
“It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.”
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
“Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.”
“Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”
“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.”
“Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”
“A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.”
“Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.”
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
“Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.”
“Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.”
“To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.”
“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
“There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.”
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
“Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.”
“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.”
“I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.”
“Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.”
“Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.”
“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.”
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”
“People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!”