Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
I have my own virtue, which I am constantly cultivating and refining by teaching myself not to tolerate in me or my surroundings anything but the exquisite.
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
The most decisive actions of our life–I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future–are, more often than not, unconsidered.
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
Let every emotion be capable of becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness...
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
