An artist never really finishes his work he merely abandons it.
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This … is a precious gift.
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning we feel a certain void. ‘Nothing in the paper today ‘ we sigh.
Peace is a virtual mute sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds.
To penetrate one’s being one must go armed to the teeth.
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
War: a massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don’t massacre each other.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.